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

COBOL Interview Questions

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if a file has 1000 recods how copy the records from 1 to 100 records using sort

IBM,

4 8555

how the control comes back from subprogram to mainprogram

IBM,

3 7411

if a dataset is already created with fixed length but after that i want to change fixed length to variable length then how is it possible

IBM,

3 9225

what is the difference between perform varying and perform until

TCS,

4 20546

what is SYNCHRONIZATION?

Syntel,

3 7750

give the examples of strings in cobol

IBM,

1 5243

diffrence between renames and redifnes with examples

IBM,

3 27421

01 A pic 9(100) find record length of it

TCS,

6 11709

give the examples for strings and unstrings in cobol

IBM,

2 8058

if a>b continue display x. dispaly y. end-if display 1 display 2. display 3. what should be my output ?

3 5654

what is Reentrancy and Quasi-reentrancy?

1 4972

without performing any operations on a file how can i know whether it contains data or not

2 6278

maximum of how many screens we can open in emulator

2 5702

can we use COPY statement in w-s section? how?

3 7026

WHAT IS SOC3?HOW IT CAN BE RESOLVED?

1 21399

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I have to write to a outfile where the number of records in that file should be the header of that file using IMS.. can anyone help me in this issue

2558

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

1385

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

2021

Write a cobol program making use of the redefine clause.

1189

What is the difference between binary search and sequential search?

1097

Whats the difference between search & search ALL?

6544

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.

4175

I have File 1 occurs 5 times with Employee-ID,Employee-Name,Employee-Dept (EEE and MECH). I have File 2 occurs 10 times with Employee-ID,Employee-Name,Employee-Dept (EEE,CIVIL,CHEMICAL and MECH). In FIle 1 and FIle 2 , for matching Employee-DEPT (Only MECH) , we need to move entire records from file1 to file 2. We should not use 2D array. Your help is needed here.

1568

What are 77 levels used for?

1112

What is the difference between comp and comp-3 usage?

1208

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

1112

What is the difference between Call and a Link?

1202

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

1177

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

2488

how do you reference the ksds vsam file formats from cobol programs

1199

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