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 30229

How can you declare the file ?

Wipro,

1 5111

How many divisions we have in Cobol ?

Wipro,

4 8671

What is XDC ?

Cap Gemini, IBM,

3 18807

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

Cap Gemini,

6 48828

How can you display the SPOOL information ?

2 5823

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

Hewitt,

1 3878

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

Hewitt, TCS,

2214

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

Hewitt,

1 5225

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

Hewitt,

2 6818

how would you resolve sb37 and SE37?

Hewitt,

2 16680

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

Hewitt,

3 8785

how to display the dataset information?

2 6105

what is s013u000 for?

Hewitt,

1 5240

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

2 5384

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Un-Answered Questions { COBOL }

What is the difference between next sentence and continue in cobol programing language?

1165

What is the problem of ordered sequential files access?

1115

What are the pertinent COBOL commands?

3110

What is amode(24), amode(31), rmode(24) and rmode(any) (applicable to only mvsesa enterprise server) ?

1123

How to get the last record in vsam file in cluster? And how can you get the kids file records into your cobol program?

1148

Explain what you understand by passing by value.

1103

Can we redefine the field of x(200) to less than 200?

1315

What is amode(24)?

1194

What is the local-storage section?

1107

How can you get the ksds file records into your cobol program?

1039

how do you reference the fixed unblock file formats from cobol programs

1178

What rules are followed by the search verb.

1059

What is rmode(24)

1108

What are the different rules for performing sort operation?

1157

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

2484

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