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

COBOL Interview Questions

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Can we dynamically increase the size of occurs clause? i.e In case I an not sure of the size of array and want to increase the size at run time.If yes , how?

1 6223

I have a variable account-number declared as comp-3, s9(10) comp-3 in a file. How do i find a particular account number say 123456 in that file?

3 8240

Suppose i want to declare a binary comp fild of 7 byte .how to write?

IBM,

6 11362

I am sending values a and b with pic x(10) and pic x(10) by using call statement. In linkage section, I am receiving values with pic x(10) and pic x(11). Will my program fail? will it be compile error or run time abend?

3 7190

What is JOBLIB and STEPLIB in JCL? what is the purpose of using it?

1 16612

is this below syntax correct? CALL 'subprg' using A,B Please help

2 5666

COBOL Snippet: Tell where the control will when the below code execute IF (A=B) CONTINUE ELSE NEXT SENTENCE PERFORM END-IF.

HCL,

7 13956

can i give 9(10) in comp 3 instead of s9(10) ? if i can give wht would be ths ans

DELL,

2 7522

wht is load module and object module ?

DELL, TCS,

2 14831

wht is structured cobol pgm and non structred cobol pgm ?

CTS, DELL,

1 4001

how can we get current dat and time thru cobol pgm

DELL,

3 11576

how can i see junk values in dclgen or in hostvariable of comp ?

DELL,

3005

can any one give good example for cond 88 level number and for renames pls urgent dudes ?

DELL,

3 8785

how will u code parm parameter and where pls ?

DELL,

3 7893

wht is the difference between goto and perform stmts

DELL,

7 36072

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IF I mention stop run in CICS what happens?

2384

Give some examples of command terminators?

1268

Write some characteristics of cobol as means of business language.

1149

Write a program to explain size error.

1204

What are the different data types in cobol?

1457

Hi pls anybody tell me about " ANALYSIS DOCUMENT PREPARATION AND ESTIMATION OF TASK " (in real time project)."I want to update a sequential file in my project" for that purpose i need both structures i mean analysis document and estimation of task.

2155

What are the different rules of SORT operation?

1150

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

1304

Write a program that uses move corresponding.

1156

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

1250

how to access the file from prodution from changeman tool and to submit a file to production

7558

Difference between cobol and cobol-ii?

1286

How you can read the file from bottom?

1162

What is the difference between PIC 9.99 and PIC9v99?

1350

Have you used comp and comp-3 in your project? And how?

2488

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