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

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wht is the diff b/w if and evaluate stmts ?

DELL,

2 6399

which one is better among static call and dynamic call?

3 7215

please..could u give an example about USAGE IS POINTER ..and explain why and when we use it ?

EDS,

2479

Can we put move statement in COBOL copybook

Global Logic,

3 15480

what will happen if i give program name and member name as different? program runs successful or w'll abend?

CTS,

5 12245

can we read in input the file with a variable length ? please , how ..could you help me ?

EDS,

3 9490

example for sub strings ? and refernce modifications whit output pls

College School Exams Tests, IBM,

2323

how to display date in reverse order if the pic clause of the is numeric suppose date is 09032010 ==> need to print in 20100309 (pic clause is numeric)

6 9175

what happens when a copybook variables are declared using include statement ?

IBM,

3 8799

where will we code call by content and call by reference dude pls reply soon ?

2 6422

how can u find out just by seeing wheater it is main program or sub program ? any two ways to identify reply soon ?

2 6533

which is faster either static call or dynamic call ? and specify the reasons for it ? reply fast

1 5870

wht do u mean by (*,intrdr) wht is * used for ?

2 12313

how can we code index in an array of cobol pgm?

Wipro,

1 7533

how can we fetch 3 records in cobol pgm any coding pls ?

CGI,

3 9396

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How do we get current date from system with century in COBOL?

1385

What is inspect in cobol ?

1309

Define static linking and dynamic linking.

1203

how we sort two input files based on a common column and giving one o/p file please send me the coding logic?

2141

Are you comfortable in cobol or jcl?

1055

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

2488

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

1116

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

1112

What is the difference between Global and External Variables?

1385

Which mode is used to operate the sequential file?

1210

What is a SSRANGE and NOSSRANGE?

1477

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

868

How do get the result of your program directly on your pc?

2350

I have program P1 which calls file F1 which has 100 records and following structure 001 .................. 002 .................. 003 .................. 098 .................... 099 ................... 100 .................... Now I want to read these files and write these records in file F2 in following manner. 001 ...... 051 ..... 002 ...... 052 ..... 003 ...... 053 ..... .......... ....... .......... ....... .......... ....... 048 ........ 098 ...... 049 .......... 099 ....... 050 .... 100 ......

12395

here is my requirement A1 is alphanumeric with value 'A1B2C3D4' as defined below 05 A1 PIC X(8) VALUE IS 'A1B2C3D4' but i need to have A2,A3 as ABCD & 1234 repectively...... A2 = ABCD A3 = 1234 Can you please explain me what are the different ways to do it?

7904

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