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 20162

COMP?

2 6314

What should be the sorting order for SEARCH ALL?

5 10496

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

ABC, HCL, TCS,

6 37981

How do you define a table/array in COBOL?

Hexaware,

5 31286

When is a scope terminator mandatory?

3 9127

How do you submit JCL via a Cobol program?

IBM,

5 20670

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

2 13234

Differentiate COBOL and COBOL-II?

2508

What is the difference between COMP & COMP-3 ?

2 30802

What was removed from COBOL in the COBOL II implementation?

2089

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 15535

How many sections are there in data division?.

Amdocs, TCS,

10 28065

What is the difference between NEXT SENTENCE and CONTINUE?

Mphasis,

2 14136

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

ABC, IBM, Mphasis, Wipro,

6 26752

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Why would you use find and get rather than to obtain?

1139

What are the different rules for performing sort operation?

1163

Have you used the sort in your project?for this type of questions any working on real time project give the eg. with real time scenario.

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i made it to stage 3 of an interview process wednessday they will quiz my knowledge again face to face for an analyst role recruiter said it will be based on Business requirements system is cobol and good ideas what they might ask etc

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What are the cobol coding sheets?

1198

Write a cobol program making use of the redefine clause.

1134

what is s000 u4087 error? please give the all error codes in cobol,jcl.

17816

Mention the guidelines to write a structured cobol program?

1043

How do we get current date from system with century in COBOL?

1338

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?

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what is search and searchall?what is the diffrence between them?give an best example?

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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.

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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?

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here is my requirement A1 is alphanumeric with value 'A1B2C3D4' as defined below 05 A1 PIC X(8) VALUE IS 'A1B2C3D4' but i need to have A2,A3 as ABCD & 1234 repectively...... A2 = ABCD A3 = 1234 Can you please explain me what are the different ways to do it?

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which is Best IBM Mainframe Training and Placement Institute in Ameerpet Hyderabad

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