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

COBOL Interview Questions

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How do u debug a S0C7 abend? (aswered till we get the field which caused that) After knowing the field which caused that how do u know the record which caused that if it is in production env? (dumb) Ok let us assume that we got to know that 100th record caused that and I wanted to skip only 100th record from the file and process from 101th. How to do that in JCL using SORT? (tried with STOPAFT but ended up dumb when he said smthing else is ther)

IBM,

3 15791

can any one help -s806

6 12437

is it possible to declare index in cobol program? if it is not why its tell me pls

3 10782

CAN ANY ONE HELP WHAT IS QTP? why it is nessery AND WEN IT IS USED?

1 5021

what are the diferences b/w sub-script and index?

4 6744

what is the difference b/w level no.01 & level no.77?

HCL,

3 12045

what is meant by binary search?

4 8715

if one main program ,n -subprograms are then which call you follow ?why reasonuhg

UHG,

4 9748

hie everyone.i just completed my b.tech in electronics and joined mainframes course.am i doing right course for my better future?please help me with your suggestions.ill be very thankful to you guys.

2 5296

i friends greetings to the day...!!! I face a quation like"while runnig the programe every day i have to access the previous day updates only...!! Ex:- Let last day 100 customers took bank account i have to select those customers only.."

CSC,

4 10138

Explain Restart Logic in Cobol?

L&T, Syntel,

1 10836

What is the size of s9(19)comp3? explain

8 14198

hw to create 3 dimensional array & hw to access it?

1 6140

plz any one tell clearly the justify right clause?

1 5010

created cluster using IDCAMS ..that is empty ..when i write a program for read using Input ..wil it open the cluster or gives any error?

HCL,

2 8690

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Un-Answered Questions { COBOL }

Why did you choose to work with ibm mainframe cobol programming?

1162

Are you comfortable in cobol or jcl?

1093

What type of SDLC u followed? Why?

2050

what is difference between cobol and cobol/400

23082

What is a SSRANGE and NOSSRANGE?

1533

Write the code implementing the perform … varying.

1122

How do you reference the fixed block file formats from cobol programs

1289

Which mode is used to operate the sequential file?

1257

Differentiate cobol and cobol-ii. (Most of our programs are written in cobolii, so, it is good to know, how, this is different from cobol)?

1174

State the various causes of s0c1, s0c5 and s0c7.

1144

How do define dynamic array in cobol.

1185

What is the difference between goback, stop run and exit program in cobol?

1647

Explain how will you differentiate between an internal and an external sort, the pros and cons, internal sort syntax etc

1309

What is a scope terminator give example?

1157

What are the different rules for performing sort operation?

1281

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