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 11123

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

Patni,

3 7586

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

Patni,

6 12542

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 10975

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 6427

wht happens if we dnt give scope terminator ?

TCS,

4 8668

where will u code file status ?

TCS,

2 6703

how do u link sub pgm to main pgm ?

TCS,

2 7517

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

TCS,

3 10055

can we print comp 3 stmts how ?

Accenture, TCS,

3 13567

Difference between ps, esds

3 14224

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

1 6066

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

4 9797

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 18291

what is srange and nosrange pls reply to ths question ?

L&T,

2 7172

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I have one ps file in which there are 3 fileds emp_no,emp_name and leave_app.this ps file information give the detail of employee which is going to apply for leave.suppose emp_no=113430,emp_name=ajay,leave_app=1 that means he is going to apply for 1 day leave.and accordingling the table in db2 will be updated means if he has that no of leave in his account then he will get dat leave and updated acc. in table(leave_balance=previous leave present in table-leave_app).Now i want to check whther the updated result is correct or not by comparing the two ps file using IEBCOMPARE or icetool so what is going to be the two ps file and how its is going to be compare.

2429

What is static and dynamic call in cobol?

1070

what is the difference between COBOL2 AND COBOL390?

3051

How to get the last record in vsam file in cluster? And how can you get the ksds file records into your cobol program?

1143

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

1328

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

2597

which is Best IBM Mainframe Training and Placement Institute in Ameerpet Hyderabad

1504

How to traceback if I am getting SOC7 or SOC4 abend? List down the steps

5373

Write a program to explain size error.

1199

What are literals?

1132

What is the use of intialize verb?

1254

I have to write to a outfile where the number of records in that file should be the header of that file using IMS.. can anyone help me in this issue

2538

What type of SDLC u followed? Why?

1998

A table has two indexes defined. Which one will be used by the SEARCH?

1283

What the difference is between continue and next sentence?

1163

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