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COBOL Interview Questions

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A table has two indexes defined. Which one will be used by the SEARCH?

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What are all the divisions of a COBOL program?

1276

What is the difference between Global and External Variables?

1440

What are the different rules to perform a Search?

1144

What is a SSRANGE and NOSSRANGE?

1535

Which division and paragraphs are mandatory for a COBOL program?

1335

What happens when we move a comp-3 field to an edited (say z (9). Zz-)?

1486

How many bytes do a s9 (7) comp-3 field occupy?

1 1977

Explain how to differentiate call by context by comparing it to other calls?

1248

What is an in line perform? When would you use it? Anything else you wish to say about it.

1144

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

What is comp-1 and comp-2?

1283

What is the default value(s) for an initialize and what keyword allows for an override of the default?

1268

What is amode(24)?

1299

What are 77 levels used for?

1152

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Why occurs cannot be used in 01 level in COBOL?

1206

I need to compare 3 variables(dates) and do some processing based on the earliest date. There could be more then 1 date record in any of the 3 fields. What is the best way to code this?

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What is the difference between structured cobol programming and object alternativelyiented cobol programming?

1280

State the various causes of s0c1, s0c5 and s0c7.

1148

What are 77 levels used for?

1152

what is the difference between COBOL2 AND COBOL390?

3117

What are various search techniques in cobol? Explain.

1113

what is difference between cobol and cobol/400

23086

What is the difference between PIC 9.99 and 9v99 in COBOL?

1406

what is s000 u4087 error? please give the all error codes in cobol,jcl.

17935

What guidelines should be followed to write a structured cobol prgm?

1216

How do define dynamic array in cobol.

1187

INREC AND OUTREC? HOW TO SPLIT 5K RECORDS TO DIFFERENT FILES IN A FILE IN COBOL? RESTART IN COBOL-DB2? ISOLATION LEVELS?

921

What is inspect in cobol ?

1356

Why would you use find and get rather than to obtain?

1266

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