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

COBOL Interview Questions

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Can we use redefine clause in occurs clause?

10 24781

What is the difference between write & move in COBOL?

CSC, HHB,

3 14890

What is the meaning of 'TALLING' verb in cobol?

5 16601

What is the meaning of 'Eject' verb in cobol?

TCS, Wipro,

2 28855

How can we pass data from cobol to JCl?

ADP, Amdocs, IBM,

7 48711

How include time & date in the report generation in cobol programing?

2 11428

How does IDMS communicate with CICS?

Covansys, Satyam,

1 5868

What are the pertinent COBOL commands?

Satyam,

3172

What is the difference between a binary search and a sequential search?

10 47029

How can you pass values from COBOL program to non-COBOL programs?

2 7741

How does IDMS insure data integrity?

1 5159

What are the functions like c or c++ in cobol?

2 7132

What is difference between comp & comp-4?

6 22364

What are differences between COBOL and java ? why we are giving more preference to COBOL ?

TCS,

3 19541

How to resolve the soc4 & soc7 other than following answers. Soc4 can resolved using mispleed dd name and dd name is not matching with file and soc7 check the sysdump and copy the offest address then correct it in the program.

ADP, Amdocs, Cap Gemini, Keane India Ltd, Super Value, TCS,

10 103347

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

2219

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

1197

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

2530

Define cobol?

1396

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.

1563

How are the next sentence and continue different from each other?

1291

i was faced one question- i have value -00001234.56 Suppress the zeroes and the output should be -1234.56 But Not - 1234.56 spaces should not be available after suppressing the zeroes. logic in jcl and cobol?

1324

What is the difference between perform … with test after and perform … with test before?

1439

What is report-item in COBOL?

1151

Give some examples of command terminators?

1254

Hi pls anybody tell me about " ANALYSIS DOCUMENT PREPARATION AND ESTIMATION OF TASK " (in real time project)."I want to update a sequential file in my project" for that purpose i need both structures i mean analysis document and estimation of task.

2143

What is an in line perform? When would you use it? Anything else you wish to say about it.

1070

Write the code to count the sum of n natural numbers.

1206

2 input fles: 2 flat files, with different number of records. both are having unique key for each record and already sorted in ascending order . match these files using unique key and in output only matching key value has to be written. please procide cobol logic

2590

How do u write test cases?

2063

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