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 13593

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 43933

what is the difference between Normal vaiable and comp variable.

DELL,

5 13902

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

IBM,

11 41303

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 16476

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 34507

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

IBM,

4 17171

How to retain the Duplicates in the one records?

CS,

3 10193

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

UST,

3 10111

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 13124

1) can we display the index?

ADP, IBM,

3 27553

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

DCL, IBM,

6 12089

what is S04E error in jcl?

IBM, L&T,

11 72384

What is Static,Dynamic linking ?

2 7054

Can we use icetool in cobol program?

3 9081

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Un-Answered Questions { COBOL }

What guidelines should be followed to write a structured cobol prgm?

1148

What rules are to be followed while using the corresponding options?

1071

There are 5 fields and 1000 records in a file. Unload it into an array. Write the syntax for declaration and how will you unload it.

1435

Describe the cobol database components?

1177

Discuss about changing dataset name in proc.

1235

how do you reference the variable unblock file formats from cobol programs

1328

Define static linking and dynamic linking.

1195

Give some examples of command terminators?

1261

Write down the divisions of cobol program?

1258

What is inspect in cobol ?

1302

Differentiate between structured cobol programming and object-oriented cobol programming.

1150

if we have " ibm mainframe ",in that how to remove first and last leading space eg:"ibm mainframe" like that the answer we need

1349

how do you reference the fixed unblock file formats from cobol programs

1237

What is a scope terminator give example?

1112

What are literals?

1136

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