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

COBOL Interview Questions

Questions Answers Views Company eMail

01 a pic s9(5) occupies how many bytes ?

Wipro,

9 30575

How can you declare the file ?

Wipro,

1 5211

How many divisions we have in Cobol ?

Wipro,

4 8866

What is XDC ?

Cap Gemini, IBM,

3 18977

S9(5)V9(2) occupies how many bytes memory ?

Cap Gemini,

6 49093

How can you display the SPOOL information ?

2 5934

when SE37 SB37 and sd37 occurs how to increase the volume , primary quantity and secondary quantity?

Hewitt,

1 3975

how to know that the file has 300 records how to acess it?

Hewitt, TCS,

2271

where did you see the information regarding abend codes in jcl?

Hewitt,

1 5329

if we have a 10 steps how to override the 4th step in jcl?

Hewitt,

2 6956

how would you resolve sb37 and SE37?

Hewitt,

2 16841

if you give cylinder(1,1)how many cylinders it will be allocate?

Hewitt,

3 8925

how to display the dataset information?

2 6241

what is s013u000 for?

Hewitt,

1 5321

File status must be checked both while opening and reading the file or only while reading the file?

2 5495

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Un-Answered Questions { COBOL }

What is the difference between comp and comp-3?

1185

What is the default value(s) for an initialize? What keyword will allow for an override of the default?

1123

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

2144

if we have " ibm mainframe ",in that how to remove first and last leading space eg:"ibm mainframe" like that the answer we need

1351

What is amode(31)

1174

What is difference between static and dynamic call in cobol?

1391

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

2011

What is the difference between PIC 9.99 and PIC9v99?

1338

Define static linking and dynamic linking.

1195

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

1227

In which area will you utilize 88 level items in cobol?

1165

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

3003

Explain about different table spaces.

1107

How arrays can be defined in COBOL?

1223

Mention the guidelines to write a structured cobol program?

1095

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