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

COBOL Interview Questions

Questions Answers Views Company eMail

What is the maximum size of a 01 level item in COBOL I? in COBOL II?

IBM, RBS,

2 20269

How may divisions are there in JCL-COBOL?

IBM,

5 18790

What are the differences between OS VS COBOL and VS COBOL II?

IBM,

1 13969

How is sign stored in a comp-3 field?

7 22756

What does the IS NUMERIC clause establish ?

2 14072

What are the differences between COBOL and COBOL II?

CSC,

1 7946

Name the divisions in a COBOL program ?

7 17439

How can you submit a job from COBOL programs?

ITC Infotech,

2 12268

What is the point of the REPLACING option of a copy statement?

3 9748

What is the Purpose of POINTER Phrase in STRING command

3 17094

What does the INITIALIZE verb do?

1 11592

Can you call an OS VS COBOL pgm from a VS COBOL II pgm ?

Microsoft,

3 7826

When would you use in-line perform?

2 6769

How do you come out of an EVALUATE statement?

3 9211

what is the difference between external and global variables?

1 17603

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Un-Answered Questions { COBOL }

What is the compute verb? How is it used?

1148

INREC AND OUTREC? HOW TO SPLIT 5K RECORDS TO DIFFERENT FILES IN A FILE IN COBOL? RESTART IN COBOL-DB2? ISOLATION LEVELS?

868

What type of SDLC u followed? Why?

1999

Why occurs cannot be used in 01 level in COBOL?

1160

In COBOL programming, what is PERFORM? What is VARYING?

1152

How can we find that module can be called – whether DYNAMICALLY or STATICALLY?

1234

What are the different types of condition in cobol and write their forms.

1115

How many sections are there in data division in COBOL?

1135

can anybody post me about file-aid and changemen tools pls and give me reference if any mainframe guys are there

2473

) what is the difference between AID and HANDLE AID?

2156

Difference between array and sub-script ?

1662

What are the various section in data division and briefly explain them.

1182

IF I mention stop run in CICS what happens?

2379

What is difference between static and dynamic call in cobol?

1391

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

1209

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