COBOL Interview Questions
Questions Answers Views Company eMail

When the working storage variables get allocated? a.At Compile time b.At starting of the run time c.At end of the run time. d.None of these

Wipro,

6 11322

i want to use only first 100 records from a file.plz tell me how to write JCL for this(for read,copy,write operations).plz give me details of all posible JCL utilities?

CTS,

7 40927

what is the difference between Normal vaiable and comp variable.

DELL,

5 11974

How to read the last 100 records from a COBOL file. The file contains N number of records.

IBM,

11 36628

What is the significance of the PROGRAM-ID paragraph? If this name doesnt match with the name of the COBOL program, does it make a difference? Is the name specified in the PROGRAM-ID paragraph used as a name for the load module or any such thing?

IBM,

4 14780

How to find whether a Flat file is empty or not without Reading a file in COBOL Program. (not using JCL)

Bank Of America,

9 31489

How to display the index.(displacement from an array)

IBM,

4 15515

How to retain the Duplicates in the one records?

CS,

3 8373

How to retrive the 9th records out of ten records using the cobol program ?

UST,

3 8723

i have the following varibles in the working storage 05 ws-A PIC X(30) VALUE 'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRESTUVWXYZ ' 05 WS-B REDEFINES WS-A 10 WS-B1 PIC X(10). 10 WS-B2 PIC 9(10). 10 WS-B3 PIC X(10). If I Display B1, B2 and B3 respectively, what is the value displayed in B2

9 10244

1) can we display the index?

ADP, IBM,

3 25753

Can we access the a[0] in the array ?

DCL, IBM,

6 9889

what is S04E error in jcl?

IBM, L&T,

11 66444

What is Static,Dynamic linking ?

2 5688

Can we use icetool in cobol program?

3 7700


Post New COBOL Questions

Un-Answered Questions { COBOL }

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.

3704


how do you reference the variable unblock file formats from cobol programs

731


What kind of error is trapped by on size error option?

730


Why do we code s9 (4) comp. Inspite of knowing comp-3 will occupy less space?

697


What are the access modes of START statement?

706






What is the local-storage section?

668


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

804


What is the compute verb? How is it used?

649


Write the code implementing the perform … varying.

634


Define static linking and dynamic linking.

650


What do you understand by psb and acb?

659


How to use the same COBOL program in Batch and CICS on lines? explain with an example

1904


How do you reference the following file formats from cobol programs?

686


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

760


can you please let me know if there is any walkins for COBOL/PLI/DB2/IMS/JCL in pune other than IBM and ITC infotech

1942