COBOL Interview Questions
Questions Answers Views Company eMail

what is redefines? where it can be effectively use for the purpose of memory utilization? give an example?

IBM,

4 7163

i am a btech cs 2009 passout. i am opting for mainframe course. is it good to do this course? pls. anyone suggest me

4 4791

when iam reading a flat file which has 100 records through cobol program when iam reading 50th records it gets abends .. so when i run the program again it should read from 50th record .where it got abened ? how it is possible

Patni,

1 7061

what is soc7 abend?how u can trace it?

Accenture,

4 12411

There are two flat files one having 10 records and other having 5 records. write a cobol pgm to find the duplicate records(matching records)from both files.

Mind Tree,

1 7115

01 text-data pic x(100). move 'xyzdbfrjjg u' to text-data. how to find the value of last index of text-data?

Mind Tree,

3 6441

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

Valtech,

1644

how we separate the cobol cics statements from cobol&cics programming?

Valtech,

1 4284

What is tne need to use sub programs in Cobol?

HSBC,

3 8089

What are the situations u have used in ur project for Subcript and Index ? 1.if u use Subscript why not Index,why u choose Subscript only? 2.if u use Index why not Subscript,what abt Displacement?

Cap Gemini,

2 8021

i want to learn mainframe..any websites and material to learn from basic..? my mail id : rajeswaribe2010@gmail.com

1763

I have sequential file recl 1000 i want to add another 15 bytes to it. The record length should not change..How?

CTS, HCL,

1 4407

wht is packed decimal in cobol

2 6116

what is sort? whis is internal & external sort ?when do u go for inter sort & external sort? tell about some sort utilites?

BirlaSoft,

2 7524

how to convert vsam table into DB2 table?

IBM, Wipro,

1 4977


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Un-Answered Questions { COBOL }

How arrays can be defined in COBOL?

661


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

678


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

809


What is amode(31)

715


input= ,,,, mainframe training ,,, hyderabad .... location.... output1=$ mainframe training in hyderabad location$ output2=**** mainframe training in hyderabad location ****. In this pgn when we give input considering the spaces the output is displayed in this format.Like in the place of ,,,, $ should be displayed likewise.So please helpmeout.

1775






How you can read the file from bottom?

656


What is the Purpose of Pointer in the string?

639


Why occurs cannot be used in 01 level in COBOL?

710


What is static and dynamic call in cobol?

590


Why would you use find and get rather than to obtain?

677


What is the difference between binary search and sequential search?

636


) How do u handle errors in BMS macro?

1423


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

706


How do you code cobol to access a parameter that has been defined in jcl? And do you code the parm parameter on the exec line in jcl?

695


What is the difference between goback, stop run and exit program in cobol?

918