COBOL Interview Questions
Questions Answers Views Company eMail

What is the maximum size of a 01 level item in COBOL I? in COBOL II?

IBM, RBS,

2 18847

How may divisions are there in JCL-COBOL?

IBM,

5 16462

What are the differences between OS VS COBOL and VS COBOL II?

IBM,

1 12804

How is sign stored in a comp-3 field?

7 20030

What does the IS NUMERIC clause establish ?

2 12961

What are the differences between COBOL and COBOL II?

CSC,

1 6614

Name the divisions in a COBOL program ?

7 15023

How can you submit a job from COBOL programs?

ITC Infotech,

2 10900

What is the point of the REPLACING option of a copy statement?

3 8243

What is the Purpose of POINTER Phrase in STRING command

3 15511

What does the INITIALIZE verb do?

1 10784

Can you call an OS VS COBOL pgm from a VS COBOL II pgm ?

Microsoft,

3 6592

When would you use in-line perform?

2 5759

How do you come out of an EVALUATE statement?

3 7984

what is the difference between external and global variables?

1 16539


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What is the compute verb? How is it used?

649


how to refer the data field?

1793


i made it to stage 3 of an interview process wednessday they will quiz my knowledge again face to face for an analyst role recruiter said it will be based on Business requirements system is cobol and good ideas what they might ask etc

2092


Write down the divisions of cobol program?

659


Our issue is there seems to be a disconnect, or no link, between our SELECT statement and our SD. We had SELECT SORT-FILE and SELECT SORT-FILE ASSIGN TO SORTWRK. ASSIGN TO SORTWRK1 SORTWRK2 SORTWRK3 SORTWRK4. with SD SORT_FILE RECORD CONTAINS 7833 CHARACTERS. In either case, at run time, the system ignored our SORTWRK# DD statements and allocated 16 sort works with the SORTWK## naming convention. Any ideas why the system does not recognize the connection? We do not even need the SORTWRK DD statements. Thanks

2320






How arrays can be defined in COBOL?

654


How to read the 2nd last record of a VSAM file? (The file size is huge and we don't know the key)

2713


What is the LINKAGE SECTION used in COBOL?

881


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

645


example for sub strings ? and refernce modifications whit output pls

1831


What is the difference between comp and comp-3?

688


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

2532


What the difference is between continue and next sentence?

647


what is amode(24), amode(31), rmode(24) and rmode(any)?

684


Why occurs cannot be used in 01 level in COBOL?

703