COBOL Interview Questions
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How to convert bunch of words in a line to relvant ASCII values?

2 4703

How to covert given string into ASCII value in COBOL/MF COBOL

CTS, IBM, iFlex,

3 13530

How to delete a front spaces in a data-name/variable in cobol Example:- 01 data-name-1 PIC x(20) value " cobol language". 01 data-name-2 PIC x(20). MOVE data-name-1 to data-name-2. would like the value of data-name-2 is "cobol language".

3 7246

Please let me know how the Eject verb works for page break.. I want to know the code, how it is used.

3 6311

How to delete leading spaces/blank in COBOL ? Example:- 01 data-name-1 pic x(220) " English is a language". I would like to delete leading spaces.

Financial Services,

7 74551

Wat is the difference between NEXT and CONTINUE statement in cobol,can any one explain with example.

Deloitte,

11 55246

I have PS flat file with 14 records. I want to read from 4th to 9th record and want to write those 6 records (4th record to 9th record) to another PS file (output file). there is no key defined in the input file. I just want read a certain Consecutive records. can any one please give me the procedure division Coding for this. I have coded the below coding but the READ-PARA is performing only 1 time even though I have 14 records in my input file (i.e FILE-1): PROCEDURE DIVISION. A000-SECTION. MOVE 0 TO I. OPEN INPUT FILE-1. IF CHECK-KEY1 > 0 DISPLAY "OPEN ERROR FOR FILE-1, CODE IS:" CHECK-KEY1 END-IF. OPEN EXTEND NEWFILE-1 IF CHECK-KEY3 > 0 DISPLAY "OPEN ERROR FOR NEWFILE-1 COD IS" CHECK-KEY3 END-IF. PERFORM READ-PARA THRU EXIT-PARA UNTIL EOF-REC = 'YES'. DISPLAY " FINALLY OUT OF LOOP" CLOSE FILE-1 CLOSE NEWFILE-1 STOP RUN. READ-PARA. ADD 1 TO I READ FILE-1 AT END MOVE 'YES' TO EOF-REC IF I > 3 AND < 10 PERFORM WRITE-PARA ELSE DISPLAY "NOT IN RANGE" END-IF. EXIT-PARA. EXIT. WRITE-PARA. WRITE NEW-REC FROM FILE1-REC.

IBM,

8 33009

01 NAME1 PIC X(13) VALUE "COBOL PROGRAMMING". 01 NAME2 PIC X(13). now I want to display the value of NAME1 in reverse order i.e value should be displayed as "GNIMMARGORP LOBOC" HOW can I do that ??? please let me know if any one knows it.

FirstApex, NIIT,

11 25235

period is missing in the cobol program which error we getting

TCS, Tesco,

5 24375

I have two sequential files, FILE-1 and FILE-2. FILE-1 contains 2 columns(A,B) and FILE-2 contains 3 columns (C,D,E).I want an output file, FILE-3 which has all five columns with duplicates eliminated from column A.

3 8155

after udatingg first 110 rows, my job abends. now how do i change my cobol program so that when i restart the Job it will start updating from 111th row ( i.e in next run I di=ont want to update those 110 rows which are already been updated in the first run before job abend)

Allianz, Wipro,

7 24280

Determine the total no of bytes in the following. 01 rec1. 02 a pic x(6) 02 b redefines a. 03 c occus 6 times pic 9. 02 d occurs 6 times pic 9. 03 e pic x(5) 03 f pic 999.

12 15178

WORKING-STORAGE SECTION. 01 VAR1 COMP-2 VALUE 0. PROCEDURE DIVISION. MOVE 10.2115 TO VAR1. DISPLAY 'VAR1 =' VAR1. GOBACK. 10.2115 is stored as .10211499999999996E 02 in OS VS Cobol 10.2115 is stored as .10211500000000000E 02 in ecobol. Any reason why?

TCS,

3 8370

which generation language is cobol

Kanbay,

4 9520

can we use full outer join with cursors declared in cobol program?

2 8052


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how can we apply for HSBC exam(Mainframe) in India??? i went to their site and was told to submit my CV ,. etc..( totally confusing...)

1915


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

438


What are the pertinent COBOL commands?

2617


I have a File that has duplicate records. I need only those records that occur more than thrice.?

8595


How do you differentiate between cobol and cobol-ii?

644






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

636


What is difference between static and dynamic call in cobol?

766


Which is the default, TEST BEFORE or TEST AFTER for a PERFORM statement?

806


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

677


Which mode is used to operate the sequential file?

654


What is the use of intialize verb?

735


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

864


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

763


Define cobol?

854


how to convert the recors form vsam file to db2 table tru file aid

2747