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

COBOL Interview Questions

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Q:what is the difference between the variable length and fixed lenght.how it varies in the cobol.

CTS, Wipro,

12 84628

i have two file, each file having : file1 is having 2 fields field1 field2 file2 is having 3 fields field1 field2 field3 my req is to make it one file like: field1 field2 field1 field2 field3 if anyone know please send me syntax, i tried this with DFSORT but could not succeed.

Syntel,

9 17652

1)what is the maximum limit for occurs? Eg: 01 A PIC X(10) OCCURS N TIME. What is the max value for N?

Wipro,

11 43899

How to find How Many Lines in Sysin DD * Parameter Thru Cobol Coding? If any one knows the Answer Please Reply .....Thanks From Shree

Merrill Lynch,

3 12152

select TURE Statement(s) aboUt eject statemenet in cobol? a)The eject statememnt must be the only statement on the line b.It causes the program to edit abnormally c. eject statement can be written in either area A or area B d. specifies that the next source statement is to be printed at Top of the next page e.The EJECTstatement has no effect on the compilation of the source program itself

2 6464

What is the difference between Perform para and perform asaection in cobol?

TCS,

3 9161

Minimum how many Number of Paragraphs are there in ID- Divison?

IBM,

7 11626

With in these three which one is the default one Call Reference, Call By Value, Call By Content.-Which one is default?

IBM,

4 10845

SSRange is used to do a range check on which of the Following. SUBSCRIPT,INDEX,REFERENCE MODIFICATION,Run-time option.

Lehman Brothers,

3 14126

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

2244

what is mainframe? what is the mainframe software ? what is use in s/w field?

CSE,

7 12492

what is the basic concept of mainframe? what knowledge is needed for learn this mainframe?

CSE, TCS, Wipro,

4 17041

How we copy a program from production region to development region.What is the process & syntax ?

CTS,

3 13669

Explain complete concept of table handling in COBOL with an example?

IBM, TCS, Wipro,

2 18815

how many bytes do SPPPP999 will store?

18 23826

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Un-Answered Questions { COBOL }

What is the default value(s) for an initialize? What keyword will allow for an override of the default?

1115

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

2339

example for sub strings ? and refernce modifications whit output pls

2316

Differentiate cobol and cobol-ii. (Most of our programs are written in cobolii, so, it is good to know, how, this is different from cobol)?

1114

How do define dynamic array in cobol. how do you define single dimensional array and multidimensional array in your cobol?

1241

How do you differentiate between cobol and cobol-ii?

1207

What is a report item?

1138

Can we change the password using ALTER? anyone tried and changed?

2019

State the various causes of s0c1, s0c5 and s0c7.

1079

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

1217

How are the next sentence and continue different from each other?

1293

Are you comfortable in cobol or jcl?

1046

What kind of error is trapped by on size error option?

1234

What are literals?

1131

can anybody post me about file-aid and changemen tools pls and give me reference if any mainframe guys are there

2375

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