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

COBOL Interview Questions

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What is mean by maxcc

Syntel,

7 51415

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,

2487

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 36445

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 6380

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

Covansys,

1 5853

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

CGI, Xansa,

8 21086

Write the syntax of a two dimensional array?

Honeywell, Xansa,

8 28776

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

IBM, Xansa,

3 22112

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

Xansa,

2 10142

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

Xansa,

6 16273

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

Xansa,

2 7253

What are decleratives in COBOL ?

Xansa,

1 15977

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

Patni, Xansa,

2 7507

What are the differences bitween cobol and cobol-2?

Wipro,

1 8287

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 20972

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Un-Answered Questions { COBOL }

How do define dynamic array in cobol.

1087

How do you differentiate between cobol and cobol-ii?

1131

How many bytes S(8) comp field occupy and its maximum value?

2092

write a cobol logic. i have file that has 10 records .1 record go to first output file and second record goes to 2 output and etc

1177

1.Is it possible to move the data from 99.99 to 99v99? 2.What is the CICS-vsam Compilation process? 3.In My GDG 5 generation will be there GDG3 got an abend what will happen? 4.In my GDG first generation is +1 And I want to add the new generation what will happen previous generation? 5.How can you give the PIC clause below conditions A). s9 (reddy), B). s9 (5) occurs 5 times? 6.How override the proc from a particular step? and what is symbolic and override Procs?

5764

Can you please let me know the centre name of INS certification in Kolkata.

2181

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

1145

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

2915

please..could u give an example about USAGE IS POINTER ..and explain why and when we use it ?

2408

Whats the difference between search & search ALL?

6365

i have 10 names in an array and my name is one of them also array is not in sorted order i need to display my name using index how will i do this

1470

In COBOL programming, what is PERFORM? What is VARYING?

1089

What are the different rules for performing sort operation?

1156

What rules are to be followed while using the corresponding options?

1018

Explain about different table spaces.

1049

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