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COBOL Interview Questions

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In EBCDIC, how would the number 1234 be stored?

TCS,

2 10483

What are VS COBOL 11 special features?

1 5205

What are options have been removed in COBOL 11?

1 4049

What is the reference modification.

2 10957

How would the number +1234 be stored if a PIC clause of PICTUREs9(4) comp-3 were used?

6 16222

What is an index for tables?

2 6598

What is a subscript ?

3 7562

What is Alternate Index ? How is it different from regular index ?

2 14885

What is CALL statement in COBOL?

4 17166

When can the USING phrase be included in the call statement ?

2 6763

What does the initialize statement do ?

2 7238

What are the two search techniques ?

iGate,

2 10042

consider the following piece of code 01 GROSS-PAY 05 BASIC-PAY PIC 9(5) 05 ALLOWENCES PIC 9(3) if BASIC-PAY has a value 1000 and ALLOWENCES has a value of 250,what will be displayed by the statement DISPLAY GROSS-PAY a.1250 b.01000250 c.01250 d.1.250

TCS,

3 8850

consider two data items 77 W-A PIC 9(3)V99 VALUE 23.75 77 W-B PIC ZZ9V99 VLAUE 123.45 after the statement MOVE W-A TO W-B what will be W-B's value? a.123.75 b.b23.75 (where b indicates space) c.023.75 d.invalid move

TCS,

5 12632

what is the result of the following? DIVIDE A INTO B GIVING C. a.C=A/B b.the reminder of B/A is stored in C c.C=B/A d.the reminder of A/B is stored in C

TCS,

3 14394

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What is amode(31)

1172

how to access the file from prodution from changeman tool and to submit a file to production

7547

Difference between cobol and cobol-ii?

1277

which is Best IBM Mainframe Training and Placement Institute in Ameerpet Hyderabad

1504

How you can characterize tables in cobol?

1201

How do we get current date from system with century in COBOL?

1375

Give some examples of command terminators?

1255

What is the difference between external and global variables in COBOL?

1462

Have you used the sort in your project?for this type of questions any working on real time project give the eg. with real time scenario.

2434

Explain the configuration section of a cobol program with examples of syntax.

1196

here is my requirement A1 is alphanumeric with value 'A1B2C3D4' as defined below 05 A1 PIC X(8) VALUE IS 'A1B2C3D4' but i need to have A2,A3 as ABCD & 1234 repectively...... A2 = ABCD A3 = 1234 Can you please explain me what are the different ways to do it?

7892

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

1148

explain sorting techniques in cobol program?

1200

How to change size of Initial number of records to *NOMAX for ALL PF files from perticular library, how can I do that

3232

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

1186

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