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 10221

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

HCL, Wipro,

3 12466

describe 805 error

DELL,

6 11365

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 4856

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

17880

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

HSBC,

2 10135

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 9295

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 6931

what is filler and what is use of filler

Syntel,

3 8547

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 5080

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

IBM,

1 4958

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

IBM,

1 4263

what is subscript in cobol?give realtime example?

Wipro,

2 12483

what is sync clause?

DELL,

2 17999

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

BirlaSoft,

3 6825

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) How do u handle errors in BMS macro

2051

Write a program to explain size error.

1199

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

1109

What is the utilization of copybook in cobol?

1192

What kind of error is trapped by on size error option?

1239

What are the different rules for performing sort operation?

1224

In COBOL, what is the different between index and subscript?

1245

how can we apply for HSBC exam(Mainframe) in India??? i went to their site and was told to submit my CV ,. etc..( totally confusing...)

2394

I have File 1 occurs 5 times with Employee-ID,Employee-Name,Employee-Dept (EEE and MECH). I have File 2 occurs 10 times with Employee-ID,Employee-Name,Employee-Dept (EEE,CIVIL,CHEMICAL and MECH). In FIle 1 and FIle 2 , for matching Employee-DEPT (Only MECH) , we need to move entire records from file1 to file 2. We should not use 2D array. Your help is needed here.

1566

What is the difference between PIC 9.99 and 9v99 in COBOL?

1333

What are all the divisions of a COBOL program?

1217

Explain how will you differentiate between an internal and an external sort, the pros and cons, internal sort syntax etc

1250

Explain what you understand by passing by value.

1154

Name the sections present in data division.

1246

Give some examples of command terminators?

1261

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