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

COBOL Interview Questions

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

IBM,

4 8541

how the control comes back from subprogram to mainprogram

IBM,

3 7398

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 9212

what is the difference between perform varying and perform until

TCS,

4 20529

what is SYNCHRONIZATION?

Syntel,

3 7734

give the examples of strings in cobol

IBM,

1 5235

diffrence between renames and redifnes with examples

IBM,

3 27398

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

TCS,

6 11684

give the examples for strings and unstrings in cobol

IBM,

2 8048

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

3 5642

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 6269

maximum of how many screens we can open in emulator

2 5689

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

3 7016

WHAT IS SOC3?HOW IT CAN BE RESOLVED?

1 21384

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

1076

What is the difference between comp and comp-3?

1185

How can i load all the data from a file to Table (array) in cobol.How i manage the occurs clause with out reading the file.Any options avilable ? Please can any one help me it is urgent?

2585

Name some of the examples of COBOl 11?

3143

I have a File that has duplicate records. I need only those records that occur more than thrice.?

9890

) what is the difference between AID and HANDLE AID?

2156

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.

2224

what is the difference between COBOL2 AND COBOL390?

3054

Write down the divisions of cobol program?

1258

What are the access modes of START statement?

1273

How to use the same COBOL program in Batch and CICS on lines? explain with an example

2393

Which division and paragraphs are mandatory for a COBOL program?

1277

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

2598

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

2999

What are the cobol coding sheets?

1271

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