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

COBOL Interview Questions

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How do you compile cobol program..?

1 7968

what happens if we wont give timestamp in precompilation process ?

Covansys,

4 9573

what is the use of comp2 ? where can we use it with example ?

Covansys,

3 12758

what happens if we dont close cursor in db2-cobol pgm?

6 27472

what is the diff b/w select stsmt and cursor ?

2 6328

77 a pic x(4) value '1234' -----> instead of this 'abcd' 77 b pic 9(4) value zeros. move a to b what is the answers for both cases? IS it possible? Give me elementary move rules briefly......

8 12491

a pic s9(4) comp b pic s9(4) comp-3 c ???????????????? d ???????????????? move a to c add a+B giving d. what is ur declaration for c,d?

4 9437

The disposition parameter in the jcl is share ( DISP+SHR ) and the program opens file in extend mode what will happen?

Cognizant,

6 20381

I have a Main Program which is calling Sub-Program which is a DB2 pgm. What will happen if I am not closing the cursor used in the Sub-program? Please advise..

iGate,

3 11736

what is linkcard in cobol?

TCS,

1 10915

what happens of we dont give time stamp in precompilation process

2 5561

Whtz the specialty of 77 level number ?

Infosys,

2 9681

77 I pic 99 value 5 Perorm para-A I times. Para -A. move 10 to I. How many times the para-A will be executed.?

TCS,

9 12802

suppose there is one PF having two members PF1 PF2.PF has one unique key Emp ID.could you tell me uniqueness in PF will be effective across members as well ? assume emp iD 3333 is in member PF1 would same Emp id be exist also in member PF2 ?

Tesco HSC, Wipro,

2 7252

If i have a variable A pic 9(2) value 10 Compute A = a - 100 what will be the value of A and will there be any error becoz of the Negative value

CTS,

3 9167

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Un-Answered Questions { COBOL }

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

1164

What is the difference between structured cobol programming and object alternativelyiented cobol programming?

1241

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?

1329

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

1297

What is the difference between binary search and sequential search?

1089

Our issue is there seems to be a disconnect, or no link, between our SELECT statement and our SD. We had SELECT SORT-FILE and SELECT SORT-FILE ASSIGN TO SORTWRK. ASSIGN TO SORTWRK1 SORTWRK2 SORTWRK3 SORTWRK4. with SD SORT_FILE RECORD CONTAINS 7833 CHARACTERS. In either case, at run time, the system ignored our SORTWRK# DD statements and allocated 16 sort works with the SORTWK## naming convention. Any ideas why the system does not recognize the connection? We do not even need the SORTWRK DD statements. Thanks

2965

Write the code to count the sum of n natural numbers.

1209

Explain the configuration section of a cobol program with examples of syntax.

1200

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

2021

What is an in line perform? When would you use it? Anything else you wish to say about it.

1076

If you are current on the owner of a set, what is the difference between obtain next and obtain first?

1348

What is amode(24), amode(31), rmode(24) and rmode(any) (applicable to only mvsesa enterprise server) ?

1213

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

1237

What happens when we move a comp-3 field to an edited (say z (9). Zz-)?

1407

Name the divisions, which are available in a cobol program?

1235

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