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 13582

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 43925

what is the difference between Normal vaiable and comp variable.

DELL,

5 13887

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

IBM,

11 41274

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 16471

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 34501

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

IBM,

4 17169

How to retain the Duplicates in the one records?

CS,

3 10186

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

UST,

3 10104

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 13114

1) can we display the index?

ADP, IBM,

3 27549

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

DCL, IBM,

6 12084

what is S04E error in jcl?

IBM, L&T,

11 72370

What is Static,Dynamic linking ?

2 7052

Can we use icetool in cobol program?

3 9071

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INREC AND OUTREC? HOW TO SPLIT 5K RECORDS TO DIFFERENT FILES IN A FILE IN COBOL? RESTART IN COBOL-DB2? ISOLATION LEVELS?

868

How to use the same COBOL program in Batch and CICS on lines? explain with an example

2389

what happens if parmparameter passes zero bytes to the program

2131

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...)

2385

i was faced one question- i have value -00001234.56 Suppress the zeroes and the output should be -1234.56 But Not - 1234.56 spaces should not be available after suppressing the zeroes. logic in jcl and cobol?

1327

How you can characterize tables in cobol?

1201

i have 10 names in an array and my name is one of them also array is not in sorted order i need to display my name using index how will i do this

1534

How to remove the spaces at the end of each record in the output file of variable length, via cobol program?

1167

Program A (Normal COBBAT) calling a B Program (DB2COBOL, COBBATDB which is using a VSAM file. its a dynamic call. How we will handle VSAM file decleration in our from JCL from where we are running A PGM. And should we have PLAN for A pGM also. if possible can some one post a sample JCL. Thanks for help in advance.

5744

What are all the divisions of a COBOL program?

1214

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

17878

How arrays can be defined in COBOL?

1218

what is the use of outrecord?

2215

What are the cobol coding sheets?

1265

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)?

1115

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