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

COBOL Interview Questions

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How will 128 be saved in s9 (3) comp-3 How will 12 be saved in s9 (2) comp

CTS,

3 10368

how we rectify soc4 and soc7 error in project(need real time answer)? please reply

HCL, Wipro,

3 12624

describe 805 error

DELL,

6 11586

hi friends,can any one post the ibm mainframe inteqview questions for 1year exp candidate,for itc infotech interview?. have any body attended for this in the past?...

ITC Infotech,

1 4942

what is s000 u4087 error? please give the all error codes in cobol,jcl.

17934

in cobol main pgm is calling sub pgm but sub pgm does not exists , what abend i get if submit the job?

HSBC,

2 10248

How to remove the spaces at end of each record in the output file Via COBOL program? note: The file has a VB length

TCS,

3 9480

I am getting S00F abend when i try to compare two variable of different pic class,one variable is of 9(09) and another is S9(09) comp-3. First i moved the data from S9(09) comp-3 to 9(09), but no luck. So i tried to move the data from S9(09) comp-3 to X (09) and move to 9(09). I am getting same error message, Please help me to find solution for this ptoblem. ERROR MESSAGE - "The system or user abend S00F R=NULL was issued."

1 7008

what is filler and what is use of filler

Syntel,

3 8724

In a COBOL program, 2 tables TABLE1 and TABLE2 are defined that are indexed by INDEX1 and INDEX2 respectively. Can we use INDEX1 with TABLE2 and INDEX2 with TABLE1?

1 5152

what is rediffine clause?in what situation it can use?give me real time example?

IBM,

1 5049

what is rediffine clause?in what situation it can use?give me real time example?

IBM,

1 4343

what is subscript in cobol?give realtime example?

Wipro,

2 12578

what is sync clause?

DELL,

2 18148

what is search and searchall?what is the diffrence between them?give an best example?

BirlaSoft,

3 6934

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What are different data types in cobol?

1390

What is a report item?

1198

For rewrite, why is it mandatory that file needs to be opened?

1154

1.Is it possible to move the data from 99.99 to 99v99? 2.What is the CICS-vsam Compilation process? 3.In My GDG 5 generation will be there GDG3 got an abend what will happen? 4.In my GDG first generation is +1 And I want to add the new generation what will happen previous generation? 5.How can you give the PIC clause below conditions A). s9 (reddy), B). s9 (5) occurs 5 times? 6.How override the proc from a particular step? and what is symbolic and override Procs?

5877

how we sort two input files based on a common column and giving one o/p file please send me the coding logic?

2189

What is the compute verb? How is it used?

1190

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

1275

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

2441

2 input fles: 2 flat files, with different number of records. both are having unique key for each record and already sorted in ascending order . match these files using unique key and in output only matching key value has to be written. please procide cobol logic

2650

How do u write test cases?

2112

I need to compare 3 variables(dates) and do some processing based on the earliest date. There could be more then 1 date record in any of the 3 fields. What is the best way to code this?

2333

What is the difference between comp and comp-3?

1229

How to print 10 to 1 if the input have only 10 digit number?

1309

What is the difference between structured cobol programming and object alternativelyiented cobol programming?

1280

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

1149

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