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

COBOL Interview Questions

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Q:what is the difference between the variable length and fixed lenght.how it varies in the cobol.

CTS, Wipro,

12 84727

i have two file, each file having : file1 is having 2 fields field1 field2 file2 is having 3 fields field1 field2 field3 my req is to make it one file like: field1 field2 field1 field2 field3 if anyone know please send me syntax, i tried this with DFSORT but could not succeed.

Syntel,

9 17703

1)what is the maximum limit for occurs? Eg: 01 A PIC X(10) OCCURS N TIME. What is the max value for N?

Wipro,

11 43950

How to find How Many Lines in Sysin DD * Parameter Thru Cobol Coding? If any one knows the Answer Please Reply .....Thanks From Shree

Merrill Lynch,

3 12174

select TURE Statement(s) aboUt eject statemenet in cobol? a)The eject statememnt must be the only statement on the line b.It causes the program to edit abnormally c. eject statement can be written in either area A or area B d. specifies that the next source statement is to be printed at Top of the next page e.The EJECTstatement has no effect on the compilation of the source program itself

2 6496

What is the difference between Perform para and perform asaection in cobol?

TCS,

3 9188

Minimum how many Number of Paragraphs are there in ID- Divison?

IBM,

7 11693

With in these three which one is the default one Call Reference, Call By Value, Call By Content.-Which one is default?

IBM,

4 10872

SSRange is used to do a range check on which of the Following. SUBSCRIPT,INDEX,REFERENCE MODIFICATION,Run-time option.

Lehman Brothers,

3 14161

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

2249

what is mainframe? what is the mainframe software ? what is use in s/w field?

CSE,

7 12532

what is the basic concept of mainframe? what knowledge is needed for learn this mainframe?

CSE, TCS, Wipro,

4 17063

How we copy a program from production region to development region.What is the process & syntax ?

CTS,

3 13693

Explain complete concept of table handling in COBOL with an example?

IBM, TCS, Wipro,

2 18842

how many bytes do SPPPP999 will store?

18 23932

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Un-Answered Questions { COBOL }

A table has two indexes defined. Which one will be used by the SEARCH?

1288

What is amode(24)?

1251

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

1146

What are the different rules to perform a Search?

1104

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.

5756

Define cobol?

1414

Can we change the password using ALTER? anyone tried and changed?

2023

if we have " ibm mainframe ",in that how to remove first and last leading space eg:"ibm mainframe" like that the answer we need

1359

How are the next sentence and continue different from each other?

1304

What is inspect in cobol ?

1312

What are the rules of the move verb?

1274

How do you reference the fixed block file formats from cobol programs

1237

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

1510

What is the difference between Call and a Link?

1205

what happens if parmparameter passes zero bytes to the program

2142

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