COBOL Interview Questions
Questions Answers Views Company eMail

What is mean by maxcc

Syntel,

7 48323

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

IBM,

1912

What is the Linkage section? What is the Use and Why the parm length use alway "PARM-LENGTH PIC S9(4) or PIC S9 (4) COMP." any reason?.Please let me know any one... Cheers,Prasad

Syntel,

8 33771

How can we find out wether to declare the data items like Integer, Char,Comp? If comp types how can we decide wether it is Comp and Comp3.How it is? Please Explain... Cheers.

Syntel,

1 5536

Write a program to concert an Indexed file into Sequential file?

Covansys,

1 4974

I have a sequential file. How do I access a record in this sequential file randomly in my program ?

CGI, Xansa,

8 18513

Write the syntax of a two dimensional array?

Honeywell, Xansa,

8 26843

I have a sequential file of 100 records. How do I load the records into a two dimensional array ?

IBM, Xansa,

3 20942

What are subroutines ? and how do we pass data to the sub routines?

Xansa,

2 9195

Should I use STOP RUN in the sub program??why?

Xansa,

6 14494

should I use Go back in the main program ? Yes we can use Go back in main program as well.

Xansa,

2 6213

What are decleratives in COBOL ?

Xansa,

1 15168

Have you code any new programs in COBOL ? What is the functionality of the programs?

Patni, Xansa,

2 6616

What are the differences bitween cobol and cobol-2?

Wipro,

1 7225

Program A calls program B. Will the working storage variables declared in program B be initialized every time it is called by program A or will the values be retained until the end of program A?

7 18973


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Un-Answered Questions { COBOL }

) How do u handle errors in BMS macro

1491


How to know whether the module is dynamical or statistical?

644


In which area will you utilize 88 level items in cobol?

702


Explain sorting techniques in cobol program? Provide the sort file definition, the sort statement, its syntax and meaning

669


What is cobol?

729






How to remove 2 duplicate records and copy only one using job control language?

723


What are all the divisions of a COBOL program?

653


Which division and paragraphs are mandatory for a COBOL program?

699


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?

685


What the difference is between continue and next sentence?

645


how to refer the data field?

1790


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

859


Differentiate between structured cobol programming and object-oriented cobol programming.

656


What is rmode(any) ?

676


I need to compare 3 variables(dates) and do some processing based on the earliest date. There could be more then 1 date record in any of the 3 fields. What is the best way to code this?

1794