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

COBOL Interview Questions

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What is an explicit scope terminator?

3 20326

COMP?

2 6421

What should be the sorting order for SEARCH ALL?

5 10706

How is sign stored in Packed Decimal fields and Zoned Decimal fields?

ABC, HCL, TCS,

6 38233

How do you define a table/array in COBOL?

Hexaware,

5 31491

When is a scope terminator mandatory?

3 9245

How do you submit JCL via a Cobol program?

IBM,

5 20937

What is the difference between a DYNAMIC and STATIC call in COBOL?

2 13363

Differentiate COBOL and COBOL-II?

2582

What is the difference between COMP & COMP-3 ?

2 30964

What was removed from COBOL in the COBOL II implementation?

2149

What will happen if you code GO BACK instead of STOP RUN in a stand-alone COBOL program i.e. a program which is not calling any other program ?

3 15691

How many sections are there in data division?.

Amdocs, TCS,

10 28466

What is the difference between NEXT SENTENCE and CONTINUE?

Mphasis,

2 14271

Can you REWRITE a record in an ESDS file? Can you DELETE a record from it?

ABC, IBM, Mphasis, Wipro,

6 27035

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Un-Answered Questions { COBOL }

Give some examples of command terminators?

1268

) How do u handle errors in BMS macro

2059

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.

6595

Write a program to explain size error.

1204

How to get the last record in vsam file in cluster? And how can you get the ksds file records into your cobol program?

1147

Write down the divisions of cobol program?

1261

Name the sections present in data division.

1254

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

868

If you are current on the owner of a set, what is the difference between obtain next and obtain first?

1357

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

3270

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

1249

What is difference between static and dynamic call in cobol?

1398

example for sub strings ? and refernce modifications whit output pls

2324

What the difference is between continue and next sentence?

1178

Write a program that uses move corresponding.

1154

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