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COBOL Interview Questions

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Name the divisions, which are available in a cobol program?

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

1280

What is amode(31)

1223

Explain how will you differentiate between an internal and an external sort, the pros and cons, internal sort syntax etc

1311

What is the difference between a binary search and a sequential search what are the pertinent cobol?

1199

What is a scope terminator give example?

1159

What is the difference between comp and comp-3?

1230

Difference between cobol and cobol-ii?

1347

What are literals?

1185

What kind of error is trapped by on size error option?

1296

What are the different data types in cobol?

1517

Can we redefine the field of x(200) to less than 200?

1435

What is the local-storage section?

1197

What is the difference between perform … with test after and perform … with test before?

1503

What are the different open modes available in cobol?

1250

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Can you please let me know the centre name of INS certification in Kolkata.

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How to read the 2nd last record of a VSAM file? (The file size is huge and we don't know the key)

3321

What is a report item?

1198

How to use the same COBOL program in Batch and CICS on lines? explain with an example

2441

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

1266

What is the difference between a binary search and a sequential search? What are the pertinent cobol commands?

1155

What is the compute verb? How is it used?

1191

How did the release of cobol/370 version 1.3 improve the performance of release 1.1?

1135

Program A (Normal COBBAT) calling a B Program (DB2COBOL, COBBATDB which is using a VSAM file. its a dynamic call. How we will handle VSAM file decleration in our from JCL from where we are running A PGM. And should we have PLAN for A pGM also. if possible can some one post a sample JCL. Thanks for help in advance.

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Which division and paragraphs are mandatory for a COBOL program?

1335

write a cobol logic. i have file that has 10 records .1 record go to first output file and second record goes to 2 output and etc

1303

Explain about different table spaces.

1155

Are you comfortable in cobol or jcl?

1096

how do you reference the ksds vsam file formats from cobol programs

1248

Describe the cobol database components?

1219

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