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

COBOL Interview Questions

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01 a pic 9(3) value is 123 01 b pic 9(6) move a to b wht will be the value ? and 01 a pic x(6) value is abc 01 b pic x(3) move a to b wht will be the value ?

Patni,

7 11164

where do we use dyanamic call ? and where do we use static call pls give any example pls ?

Patni,

3 7607

01 a pic 9(9v99) 01 b pic 9(9.99) wht will be the stored vales in both cases

Patni,

6 12566

Size of a column has been changed in DB2 table (Suppose it was of 5 characters and later changed to 4 characters) and forgot to change the DCLGEN in COBOL program, what will happen during the execution of code? If the program Abends then what will be the error? If it doesn't abend then hpw the error can be catched?

IBM,

5 11021

I have a table with 3 dimensions like this : 01 ws-table 04 ws-page occurs 3 08 ws-column occurs 2. 12 ws-record occurs 20 pic x(40). How to code with PERFORM varying with 3 dimension...I forgot..

EDS,

2 6435

wht happens if we dnt give scope terminator ?

TCS,

4 8704

where will u code file status ?

TCS,

2 6728

how do u link sub pgm to main pgm ?

TCS,

2 7531

how to pass 100 to s9(4) how r they inserted ?

TCS,

3 10068

can we print comp 3 stmts how ?

Accenture, TCS,

3 13592

Difference between ps, esds

3 14255

Difference between lrecl, blksize among PS, PDS issues? i.e in jcl at dcb

1 6074

s9(18) comp-3:: What is the size of memory it takes internally?

4 9822

How to define variable 9(20) in COBOL, because compiler does not allow us to declare variables with Pic 9(18). Can anyone please let me know the answer... I know one answer to this question which is to use Compiler option Arith (Extend) during Compilation. It extends the maximum limit to 9(32)..Just wanted to know if there is any other way to extend this?

CSC, TCS,

4 18325

what is srange and nosrange pls reply to ths question ?

L&T,

2 7191

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Un-Answered Questions { COBOL }

how do you define single dimensional array and multidimensional array in your cobol?

1113

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

2402

What rules are followed by the search verb.

1129

What is inspect in cobol ?

1312

How do define dynamic array in cobol.

1145

How do u write test cases?

2074

Which Search verb is equivalent to PERFORM…VARYING?

1047

how do you reference the printer file formats from cobol programs

1230

What are the various section in data division and briefly explain them.

1203

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

1179

Are you comfortable in cobol or jcl?

1060

example for sub strings ? and refernce modifications whit output pls

2325

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

What are INPUT PROCEDURE and OUTPUT PROCEDURE?

1304

I need to compare 3 variables(dates) and do some processing based on the earliest date. There could be more then 1 date record in any of the 3 fields. What is the best way to code this?

2285

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