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COBOL Interview Questions

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when COMP-3 is preferrable?

Patni,

3 8433

whats the disadvantage of search all over search?

Patni, TCS,

4 9328

why do u need inspect verb?

Patni,

3 8001

How to open and see copy book ?

3 15295

How to read a 100 record from a file through cobol?

2 12443

What are the different ways to run a COBOL DB2 program using JCL?

2 9548

input:- A 10 20 30 40 B 5 7 10 14 C 8 12 14 16.... output:- A = 100,B=36,C=50. Here spaces are considered between numbers. When we give input as above, the numbers should be added n displayed.So please help me out.

4 7141

input:-AABBCCDDEFGHIIJ output:- ABCDEFGHIJ Here in input we hav the duplicate characters i.e repeating characters.SO we should eliminate the duplicate characters and should display the output in ascending order.

6 11535

input:- 12233344445555566666... output:- 1=1,2=4,3=9... Here firstno i.e 1 should be displayed and after that the alikeno.s should be added n displayed.i.e 2+2=4 like tat it goeson.

1 5563

01 WS-NAME PIC X(10) OCCURES 2. by this we can get ws-name 2 times. My qustion is how can we access the second name

TCS,

5 9905

what is the coding difference between COBOL and CICS.

Cap Gemini,

8 23258

In COBOL "BEFORE" advancing is there or not ?

3 7510

input= ,,,, mainframe training ,,, hyderabad .... location.... output1=$ mainframe training in hyderabad location$ output2=**** mainframe training in hyderabad location ****. In this pgn when we give input considering the spaces the output is displayed in this format.Like in the place of ,,,, $ should be displayed likewise.So please helpmeout.

2294

how can you identify wheather the program is using search or search all in the cobol program?

iGate,

5 10882

how to code in cobol while using variable block file?

1 6581

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

2597

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

1265

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

1292

How to read the 2nd last record of a VSAM file? (The file size is huge and we don't know the key)

3321

What are the pertinent COBOL commands?

3242

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

2069

INREC AND OUTREC? HOW TO SPLIT 5K RECORDS TO DIFFERENT FILES IN A FILE IN COBOL? RESTART IN COBOL-DB2? ISOLATION LEVELS?

921

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

1185

What are the access modes of START statement?

1331

State the various causes of s0c1, s0c5 and s0c7.

1148

How do you define a variable of comp-1 and comp-2?

1260

how to move the records from file to array table. give with code example

2733

What is rmode(24)

1199

Explain sorting techniques in cobol program? Provide the sort file definition, the sort statement, its syntax and meaning

1149

Difference between cobol and cobol-ii?

1347

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