COBOL Interview Questions
Questions Answers Views Company eMail

what is redefines? where it can be effectively use for the purpose of memory utilization? give an example?

IBM,

4 7118

i am a btech cs 2009 passout. i am opting for mainframe course. is it good to do this course? pls. anyone suggest me

4 4766

when iam reading a flat file which has 100 records through cobol program when iam reading 50th records it gets abends .. so when i run the program again it should read from 50th record .where it got abened ? how it is possible

Patni,

1 7041

what is soc7 abend?how u can trace it?

Accenture,

4 12379

There are two flat files one having 10 records and other having 5 records. write a cobol pgm to find the duplicate records(matching records)from both files.

Mind Tree,

1 7094

01 text-data pic x(100). move 'xyzdbfrjjg u' to text-data. how to find the value of last index of text-data?

Mind Tree,

3 6415

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

Valtech,

1639

how we separate the cobol cics statements from cobol&cics programming?

Valtech,

1 4270

What is tne need to use sub programs in Cobol?

HSBC,

3 8072

What are the situations u have used in ur project for Subcript and Index ? 1.if u use Subscript why not Index,why u choose Subscript only? 2.if u use Index why not Subscript,what abt Displacement?

Cap Gemini,

2 7994

i want to learn mainframe..any websites and material to learn from basic..? my mail id : rajeswaribe2010@gmail.com

1757

I have sequential file recl 1000 i want to add another 15 bytes to it. The record length should not change..How?

CTS, HCL,

1 4393

wht is packed decimal in cobol

2 6104

what is sort? whis is internal & external sort ?when do u go for inter sort & external sort? tell about some sort utilites?

BirlaSoft,

2 7515

how to convert vsam table into DB2 table?

IBM, Wipro,

1 4966


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Un-Answered Questions { COBOL }

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

690


I have one ps file in which there are 3 fileds emp_no,emp_name and leave_app.this ps file information give the detail of employee which is going to apply for leave.suppose emp_no=113430,emp_name=ajay,leave_app=1 that means he is going to apply for 1 day leave.and accordingling the table in db2 will be updated means if he has that no of leave in his account then he will get dat leave and updated acc. in table(leave_balance=previous leave present in table-leave_app).Now i want to check whther the updated result is correct or not by comparing the two ps file using IEBCOMPARE or icetool so what is going to be the two ps file and how its is going to be compare.

1998


How to know whether the module is dynamical or statistical?

646


What are the different rules for performing sort operation?

749


How to fetch 1000 error records from VSAM file(Eg: 1000000 records present) while getting SOC7 abend ?

1915






) what is the difference between AID and HANDLE AID?

1626


Describe the cobol database components?

668


What are the cobol coding sheets?

655


) How do u handle errors in BMS macro

1494


What is the utilization of copybook in cobol?

646


How do we get current date from system with century in COBOL?

790


write a cobol logic. i have file that has 10 records .1 record go to first output file and second record goes to 2 output and etc

689


What do you understand by psb and acb?

659


Write a program to enter and display the names of students in a class using the occurs clause.

640


What is the difference between external and global variables in COBOL?

804