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COBOL Interview Questions

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In EBCDIC, how would the number 1234 be stored?

TCS,

2 10503

What are VS COBOL 11 special features?

1 5214

What are options have been removed in COBOL 11?

1 4063

What is the reference modification.

2 10980

How would the number +1234 be stored if a PIC clause of PICTUREs9(4) comp-3 were used?

6 16242

What is an index for tables?

2 6616

What is a subscript ?

3 7585

What is Alternate Index ? How is it different from regular index ?

2 14895

What is CALL statement in COBOL?

4 17188

When can the USING phrase be included in the call statement ?

2 6771

What does the initialize statement do ?

2 7250

What are the two search techniques ?

iGate,

2 10061

consider the following piece of code 01 GROSS-PAY 05 BASIC-PAY PIC 9(5) 05 ALLOWENCES PIC 9(3) if BASIC-PAY has a value 1000 and ALLOWENCES has a value of 250,what will be displayed by the statement DISPLAY GROSS-PAY a.1250 b.01000250 c.01250 d.1.250

TCS,

3 8859

consider two data items 77 W-A PIC 9(3)V99 VALUE 23.75 77 W-B PIC ZZ9V99 VLAUE 123.45 after the statement MOVE W-A TO W-B what will be W-B's value? a.123.75 b.b23.75 (where b indicates space) c.023.75 d.invalid move

TCS,

5 12665

what is the result of the following? DIVIDE A INTO B GIVING C. a.C=A/B b.the reminder of B/A is stored in C c.C=B/A d.the reminder of A/B is stored in C

TCS,

3 14413

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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

Give some examples of command terminators?

1268

Explain how to differentiate call by context by comparing it to other calls?

1191

Why did you choose to work with ibm mainframe cobol programming?

1119

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

2969

What are the different data types in cobol?

1454

Are you comfortable in cobol or jcl?

1056

Explain how will you differentiate between an internal and an external sort, the pros and cons, internal sort syntax etc

1261

What are INPUT PROCEDURE and OUTPUT PROCEDURE?

1303

What are 77 levels used for?

1112

What are the pertinent COBOL commands?

3182

what happens if parmparameter passes zero bytes to the program

2140

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

How do u write test cases?

2071

What is the difference between comp and comp-3?

1193

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