COBOL Interview Questions
Questions Answers Views Company eMail

What is the maximum length of a field you can define using COMP-3?

Complex System, Infosys,

4 34650

How do you define a variable of COMP-1? COMP-2?

3 16851

What is the difference between comp and comp-3 usage? Explain other COBOL usage?s.

IBM, Xansa,

3 35500

Explain the difference between an internal and an external sort, the pros and cons, internal sort syntax etc.

3 12270

What do you feel makes a good program?

2 5243

What are the different data types available in COBOL?

4 9787

Can JUSTIFIED be used for all the data types?

3 9537

What is the linkage section?

4 7904

What is Static and Dynamic linking ?

3 9886

What is the difference between Structured COBOL Programming and Object Oriented COBOL ?

1 5875

What is a scope terminator? Give examples.

2 8027

In an EVALUATE statement, can I give a complex condition on a when clause?

2 11881

What are different file OPEN modes available in COBOL?

Sun Life,

4 21985

The maximum number of dimensions that an array can have in COBOL-85 is ?

11 28210

What is the difference between performing a SECTION and a PARAGRAPH?

Accenture, Patni,

5 31026


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Un-Answered Questions { COBOL }

What is the Purpose of POINTER Phrase in STRING command in COBOL?

707


)If there are 10 steps in GDG, if I want to refer the step2 after step5 . what should I do?

1513


) how do u code after getting data?

1575


EXPLAIN MAIN FRAME TESTING PROCESS...HOW TO FIX THE MAINFRAME BUGS?

2048


how can i see junk values in dclgen or in hostvariable of comp ?

2532






How do you code cobol to access a parameter that has been defined in jcl? And do you code the parm parameter on the exec line in jcl?

687


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

846


What type of SDLC u followed? Why?

1511


What are the cobol coding sheets?

655


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

763


Name the sections present in data division.

691


What are the different rules to perform a Search?

610


What is length is cobol?

638


i need a small 3d program using inline and outline.

1629


What is rmode(any) ?

676