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

COBOL Interview Questions

Questions Answers Views Company eMail

if a file has 1000 recods how copy the records from 1 to 100 records using sort

IBM,

4 8536

how the control comes back from subprogram to mainprogram

IBM,

3 7387

if a dataset is already created with fixed length but after that i want to change fixed length to variable length then how is it possible

IBM,

3 9207

what is the difference between perform varying and perform until

TCS,

4 20522

what is SYNCHRONIZATION?

Syntel,

3 7728

give the examples of strings in cobol

IBM,

1 5233

diffrence between renames and redifnes with examples

IBM,

3 27384

01 A pic 9(100) find record length of it

TCS,

6 11673

give the examples for strings and unstrings in cobol

IBM,

2 8046

if a>b continue display x. dispaly y. end-if display 1 display 2. display 3. what should be my output ?

3 5635

what is Reentrancy and Quasi-reentrancy?

1 4967

without performing any operations on a file how can i know whether it contains data or not

2 6266

maximum of how many screens we can open in emulator

2 5687

can we use COPY statement in w-s section? how?

3 7012

WHAT IS SOC3?HOW IT CAN BE RESOLVED?

1 21372

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How many bytes S(8) comp field occupy and its maximum value?

2140

What are the different rules of SORT operation?

1138

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

2207

Mention the guidelines to write a structured cobol program?

1093

If you are current on the owner of a set, what is the difference between an obtain next and obtain first? Actually in which topic will we use dis???Plz explain it clearly

3162

) How do u handle errors in BMS macro?

1966

What is the difference between a binary search and a sequential search? What are the pertinent cobol commands?

1105

Write down the divisions of cobol program?

1253

i was faced one question- i have value -00001234.56 Suppress the zeroes and the output should be -1234.56 But Not - 1234.56 spaces should not be available after suppressing the zeroes. logic in jcl and cobol?

1327

Explain what you understand by passing by value.

1154

What are INPUT PROCEDURE and OUTPUT PROCEDURE?

1297

) how do u code after getting data?

2150

How do you get the data to code the BMS macro?

1966

When is inspect verb is used in cobol?

1255

What is the utilization of copybook in cobol?

1189

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