COBOL Interview Questions, Answers for Freshers and Experienced asked in various Company Job Interviews

COBOL Interview Questions

Questions Answers Views Company eMail

What is file status 92?

3 28487

What is the difference between SEARCH and SEARCH ALL?

Cognizant,

6 15168

comp-3 field occupy?

5 10078

How is sign stored in a COMP field ?

Accenture,

3 24209

What is LENGTH in COBOL II?

CSC,

2 11459

What is the LINKAGE SECTION used for?

4 9469

What is Redefines clause?

8 22520

What are the different forms of EVALUATE statement?

IBM, Micro Labs,

2 15592

Describe the difference between subscripting and indexing ?

2 6663

How do you set a return code to the JCL from a COBOL program?

4 29620

What is the significance of 'above the line' and 'below the line'?

Nokia,

2 9161

What is level 66 used for ?

TCS,

3 15336

How do you sort in a COBOL program? Give sort file definition, sort statement syntax and meaning.

CGI, TCS,

7 29118

What do you do to resolve SOC-7 error?

Sun Life, Wipro,

2 13435

What compiler option would you use for dynamic linking?

2 9477

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Un-Answered Questions { COBOL }

)If there are 10 steps in GDG, if I want to refer the step2 after step5 . what should I do?

2069

State the various causes of s0c1, s0c5 and s0c7.

1148

What is the use of intialize verb?

1305

What is amode(31)

1223

What rules are to be followed while using the corresponding options?

1127

i want to learn mainframe..any websites and material to learn from basic..? my mail id : rajeswaribe2010@gmail.com

2280

Is it possible that the redefines clause has different picture clauses compared to the one it redefined?

1214

) how do u code after getting data?

2212

if we display var1 then what will b displayed in below condition. 77 var1 pic s9(2) value -10. 77 var1 pic s9(2) value -11. " " " -12. " " " -13. -14 ... ... -19.

6677

How to traceback if I am getting SOC7 or SOC4 abend? List down the steps

5430

Write down the divisions of cobol program?

1339

What is cobol?

1294

What are the rules of the move verb?

1325

How do you code cobol to access a parameter that has been defined in jcl? And do you code the parm parameter on the exec line in jcl?

1252

Why is it necessary that file needs to be opened in I-O mode for REWRITE?

1391

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