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

COBOL Interview Questions

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When the working storage variables get allocated? a.At Compile time b.At starting of the run time c.At end of the run time. d.None of these

Wipro,

6 13328

i want to use only first 100 records from a file.plz tell me how to write JCL for this(for read,copy,write operations).plz give me details of all posible JCL utilities?

CTS,

7 43627

what is the difference between Normal vaiable and comp variable.

DELL,

5 13667

How to read the last 100 records from a COBOL file. The file contains N number of records.

IBM,

11 40796

What is the significance of the PROGRAM-ID paragraph? If this name doesnt match with the name of the COBOL program, does it make a difference? Is the name specified in the PROGRAM-ID paragraph used as a name for the load module or any such thing?

IBM,

4 16285

How to find whether a Flat file is empty or not without Reading a file in COBOL Program. (not using JCL)

Bank Of America,

9 34189

How to display the index.(displacement from an array)

IBM,

4 16967

How to retain the Duplicates in the one records?

CS,

3 10009

How to retrive the 9th records out of ten records using the cobol program ?

UST,

3 9966

i have the following varibles in the working storage 05 ws-A PIC X(30) VALUE 'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRESTUVWXYZ ' 05 WS-B REDEFINES WS-A 10 WS-B1 PIC X(10). 10 WS-B2 PIC 9(10). 10 WS-B3 PIC X(10). If I Display B1, B2 and B3 respectively, what is the value displayed in B2

9 12860

1) can we display the index?

ADP, IBM,

3 27429

Can we access the a[0] in the array ?

DCL, IBM,

6 11848

what is S04E error in jcl?

IBM, L&T,

11 71890

What is Static,Dynamic linking ?

2 6908

Can we use icetool in cobol program?

3 8919

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State the various causes of s0c1, s0c5 and s0c7.

1030

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.

2400

) How do u handle errors in BMS macro

1963

What are literals?

1078

What is the difference between comp and comp-3?

1135

How do you differentiate between cobol and cobol-ii?

1133

How do define dynamic array in cobol.

1087

How to fetch 1000 error records from VSAM file(Eg: 1000000 records present) while getting SOC7 abend ?

2398

What are the cobol coding sheets?

1184

Write some characteristics of cobol as means of business language.

1083

HOw can I get the negative sign while deduct high value from low value

2213

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

1039

what are decleratives in cobol?

2214

What are the pertinent COBOL

2513

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

2538

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