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

COBOL Interview Questions

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What is mean by maxcc

Syntel,

7 51808

I have to write to a outfile where the number of records in that file should be the header of that file using IMS.. can anyone help me in this issue

IBM,

2561

What is the Linkage section? What is the Use and Why the parm length use alway "PARM-LENGTH PIC S9(4) or PIC S9 (4) COMP." any reason?.Please let me know any one... Cheers,Prasad

Syntel,

8 36863

How can we find out wether to declare the data items like Integer, Char,Comp? If comp types how can we decide wether it is Comp and Comp3.How it is? Please Explain... Cheers.

Syntel,

1 6501

Write a program to concert an Indexed file into Sequential file?

Covansys,

1 5969

I have a sequential file. How do I access a record in this sequential file randomly in my program ?

CGI, Xansa,

8 21483

Write the syntax of a two dimensional array?

Honeywell, Xansa,

8 29083

I have a sequential file of 100 records. How do I load the records into a two dimensional array ?

IBM, Xansa,

3 22280

What are subroutines ? and how do we pass data to the sub routines?

Xansa,

2 10278

Should I use STOP RUN in the sub program??why?

Xansa,

6 16640

should I use Go back in the main program ? Yes we can use Go back in main program as well.

Xansa,

2 7427

What are decleratives in COBOL ?

Xansa,

1 16079

Have you code any new programs in COBOL ? What is the functionality of the programs?

Patni, Xansa,

2 7650

What are the differences bitween cobol and cobol-2?

Wipro,

1 8445

Program A calls program B. Will the working storage variables declared in program B be initialized every time it is called by program A or will the values be retained until the end of program A?

7 21311

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what is the difference between COBOL2 AND COBOL390?

3070

What is the utilization of copybook in cobol? Could we utilize a similar copybook?

1233

How do u write test cases?

2074

How many sections are there in data division in COBOL?

1147

I have a program with an Array of 5000 occurences which is being passed from 5 sub levels to the front end screen. Thess 5 programs using each 5*2 = 10 different arrays with size as 5000. This is causing the transaction to utilize more storage consupmtion. I am looking to reduce the storage consumption. As part of that initially i thought Dynamic array may solve my problem. After viewing the comments given i see its same as normal array. IS there any other way we can resolve this issue?

1654

Our issue is there seems to be a disconnect, or no link, between our SELECT statement and our SD. We had SELECT SORT-FILE and SELECT SORT-FILE ASSIGN TO SORTWRK. ASSIGN TO SORTWRK1 SORTWRK2 SORTWRK3 SORTWRK4. with SD SORT_FILE RECORD CONTAINS 7833 CHARACTERS. In either case, at run time, the system ignored our SORTWRK# DD statements and allocated 16 sort works with the SORTWK## naming convention. Any ideas why the system does not recognize the connection? We do not even need the SORTWRK DD statements. Thanks

2974

What is report-item in COBOL?

1166

What is the difference between goback, stop run and exit program in cobol?

1598

explain sorting techniques in cobol program?

1209

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.

6596

i need a small 3d program using inline and outline.

2222

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

1085

How to find out the closest prime number of an input number? I believe it has something to do with SEARCH and COBOL Linear Array.

4177

Differentiate cobol and cobol-ii. (Most of our programs are written in cobolii, so, it is good to know, how, this is different from cobol)?

1120

HOw can I get the negative sign while deduct high value from low value

2261

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