COBOL Interview Questions
Questions Answers Views Company eMail

What is an explicit scope terminator?

3 18804

COMP?

2 5290

What should be the sorting order for SEARCH ALL?

5 8854

How is sign stored in Packed Decimal fields and Zoned Decimal fields?

ABC, HCL, TCS,

6 35458

How do you define a table/array in COBOL?

Hexaware,

5 29221

When is a scope terminator mandatory?

3 7926

How do you submit JCL via a Cobol program?

IBM,

5 18422

What is the difference between a DYNAMIC and STATIC call in COBOL?

2 11667

Differentiate COBOL and COBOL-II?

1926

What is the difference between COMP & COMP-3 ?

2 29393

What was removed from COBOL in the COBOL II implementation?

1667

What will happen if you code GO BACK instead of STOP RUN in a stand-alone COBOL program i.e. a program which is not calling any other program ?

3 13911

How many sections are there in data division?.

Amdocs, TCS,

10 24645

What is the difference between NEXT SENTENCE and CONTINUE?

Mphasis,

2 12638

Can you REWRITE a record in an ESDS file? Can you DELETE a record from it?

ABC, IBM, Mphasis, Wipro,

6 23585


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What do you understand by psb and acb?

633


Write the code implementing the perform … varying.

612


input= ,,,, mainframe training ,,, hyderabad .... location.... output1=$ mainframe training in hyderabad location$ output2=**** mainframe training in hyderabad location ****. In this pgn when we give input considering the spaces the output is displayed in this format.Like in the place of ,,,, $ should be displayed likewise.So please helpmeout.

1754


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

1901


What is a report item?

711






how do you reference the fixed unblock file formats from cobol programs

678


I have a program with an Array of 5000 occurences which is being passed from 5 sub levels to the front end screen. Thess 5 programs using each 5*2 = 10 different arrays with size as 5000. This is causing the transaction to utilize more storage consupmtion. I am looking to reduce the storage consumption. As part of that initially i thought Dynamic array may solve my problem. After viewing the comments given i see its same as normal array. IS there any other way we can resolve this issue?

1206


Why do we code s9 (4) comp. Inspite of knowing comp-3 will occupy less space?

680


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

623


How did the release of cobol/370 version 1.3 improve the performance of release 1.1?

616


What is the difference between structured cobol programming and object alternativelyiented cobol programming?

679


What is the difference between a binary search and a sequential search what are the pertinent cobol?

702


If you are current on the owner of a set, what is the difference between obtain next and obtain first?

614


What is the difference between PIC 9.99 and PIC9v99?

746


i want a program using by if, evaluate , string, unstring, perform, occurs?

3995