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

COBOL Interview Questions

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What is an explicit scope terminator?

3 20111

COMP?

2 6291

What should be the sorting order for SEARCH ALL?

5 10465

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

ABC, HCL, TCS,

6 37911

How do you define a table/array in COBOL?

Hexaware,

5 31237

When is a scope terminator mandatory?

3 9088

How do you submit JCL via a Cobol program?

IBM,

5 20595

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

2 13194

Differentiate COBOL and COBOL-II?

2499

What is the difference between COMP & COMP-3 ?

2 30756

What was removed from COBOL in the COBOL II implementation?

2084

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 15488

How many sections are there in data division?.

Amdocs, TCS,

10 27941

What is the difference between NEXT SENTENCE and CONTINUE?

Mphasis,

2 14097

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

ABC, IBM, Mphasis, Wipro,

6 26667

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Un-Answered Questions { COBOL }

EXPLAIN MAIN FRAME TESTING PROCESS...HOW TO FIX THE MAINFRAME BUGS?

2482

How do get the result of your program directly on your pc?

2294

Name some of the examples of COBOl 11?

3082

What is Pic 9v99 Indicates in COBOL?

1178

What are the pertinent COBOL commands?

3105

What is a report item?

1093

What are the different data types in cobol?

1329

how can we apply for HSBC exam(Mainframe) in India??? i went to their site and was told to submit my CV ,. etc..( totally confusing...)

2337

What is difference between static and dynamic call in cobol?

1301

Is it possible that the redefines clause has different picture clauses compared to the one it redefined?

1102

how do you reference the variable block file formats from cobol programs

1182

Are you comfortable in cobol or jcl?

988

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.

2159

how do you reference the ksds vsam file formats from cobol programs

1124

What is static and dynamic call in cobol?

1002

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