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

COBOL Interview Questions

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can we use variable picture clause as xx.99 in cobol.

3 10079

what is dynamic array in cobol? what is the difference b/w array and table in cobol?

2 21467

When search all is used in cobol program without sorted input data?

CGI, Principal Finance,

6 14660

Can we use goto statement in inline_perform ?

IBM,

5 10508

what is the difference between occurs and occurs depending on? i dont think so there is the difference in storage..then why we should use occurs depending on?

TCS, Tech Mahindra,

9 30305

can we use go to statement inline-perform?

IBM,

7 13173

how to change picture class of copy book variable inside program?

2 9326

What will happen if a variable is declared as below.. Explain with an example? Working storage section:- 01 WS-VARX PIC X(9) VALUE SPACES. 01 WS-VARN REDEFINES WS-VARX PIC 9(9).

8 11878

What is normalisation?

IBM,

2 6882

How to declare if emp-name = AAAAA""BBB in working-storage section. After display emp-name should print like AAAAA""BB

Polaris,

6 9787

How to read records from flat file in reverse order through COBOL program?

Accenture, Broadridge, IBM, MAT, Polaris, SPIC, Syntel, TCS, Wipro,

14 74372

I have 2 dimensional array with having 100 elements. So how to find the 11th item in an array?

IBM,

6 16239

soc-7 is a bad data,invalid data. when ever we are moving the alphabets in the position of numeric then we got this abend. so my question is if o1 ws-data pic 9(1) value passing the alphabet some x. then we got soc-7 or not? i want clarification ?

CitiGroup, IBM,

7 12719

What is EIBCALEN? Why it is used?

ADP,

9 37976

i want to learn mainframes. i completed MCA ,whats the future of mainframes

5 8888

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Un-Answered Questions { COBOL }

For rewrite, why is it mandatory that file needs to be opened?

1109

2 input fles: 2 flat files, with different number of records. both are having unique key for each record and already sorted in ascending order . match these files using unique key and in output only matching key value has to be written. please procide cobol logic

2591

what is difference bt COND, REGION & TIME parameters at JOB & EXEC. give an exp.

9105

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?

1650

What is the difference between binary search and sequential search?

1089

What is amode(31)

1174

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

1241

If you are current on the owner of a set, what is the difference between an obtain next and obtain first? Actually in which topic will we use dis???Plz explain it clearly

3164

What is the compute verb? How is it used?

1148

In COBOL, what is the different between index and subscript?

1245

How to get the last record in vsam file in cluster? And how can you get the kids file records into your cobol program?

1209

How do you reference the following file formats from cobol programs?

1164

Explain what you understand by passing by value.

1154

What is link edit in cobol?

1195

What type of SDLC u followed? Why?

1999

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