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

COBOL Interview Questions

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01 a pic 9(3) value is 123 01 b pic 9(6) move a to b wht will be the value ? and 01 a pic x(6) value is abc 01 b pic x(3) move a to b wht will be the value ?

Patni,

7 10864

where do we use dyanamic call ? and where do we use static call pls give any example pls ?

Patni,

3 7416

01 a pic 9(9v99) 01 b pic 9(9.99) wht will be the stored vales in both cases

Patni,

6 12309

Size of a column has been changed in DB2 table (Suppose it was of 5 characters and later changed to 4 characters) and forgot to change the DCLGEN in COBOL program, what will happen during the execution of code? If the program Abends then what will be the error? If it doesn't abend then hpw the error can be catched?

IBM,

5 10761

I have a table with 3 dimensions like this : 01 ws-table 04 ws-page occurs 3 08 ws-column occurs 2. 12 ws-record occurs 20 pic x(40). How to code with PERFORM varying with 3 dimension...I forgot..

EDS,

2 6329

wht happens if we dnt give scope terminator ?

TCS,

4 8429

where will u code file status ?

TCS,

2 6601

how do u link sub pgm to main pgm ?

TCS,

2 7389

how to pass 100 to s9(4) how r they inserted ?

TCS,

3 9885

can we print comp 3 stmts how ?

Accenture, TCS,

3 13433

Difference between ps, esds

3 14064

Difference between lrecl, blksize among PS, PDS issues? i.e in jcl at dcb

1 5966

s9(18) comp-3:: What is the size of memory it takes internally?

4 9633

How to define variable 9(20) in COBOL, because compiler does not allow us to declare variables with Pic 9(18). Can anyone please let me know the answer... I know one answer to this question which is to use Compiler option Arith (Extend) during Compilation. It extends the maximum limit to 9(32)..Just wanted to know if there is any other way to extend this?

CSC, TCS,

4 18102

what is srange and nosrange pls reply to ths question ?

L&T,

2 7054

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Define static linking and dynamic linking.

1113

how do you reference the esds vsam file formats from cobol programs

1132

what happens if parmparameter passes zero bytes to the program

2084

Whats the difference between search & search ALL?

6367

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

2535

In which area will you utilize 88 level items in cobol?

1104

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.

1386

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

1022

I have a program with an Array of 5000 occurences which is being passed from 5 sub levels to the front end screen. Thess 5 programs using each 5*2 = 10 different arrays with size as 5000. This is causing the transaction to utilize more storage consupmtion. I am looking to reduce the storage consumption. As part of that initially i thought Dynamic array may solve my problem. After viewing the comments given i see its same as normal array. IS there any other way we can resolve this issue?

1605

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

1110

What is the difference between comp and comp-3 usage?

1132

Which is not true about evaluate statement

2396

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

2935

Which mode is used to operate the sequential file?

1153

What are the pertinent COBOL

2510

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