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

COBOL Interview Questions

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

IBM, RBS,

2 20244

How may divisions are there in JCL-COBOL?

IBM,

5 18758

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

IBM,

1 13958

How is sign stored in a comp-3 field?

7 22713

What does the IS NUMERIC clause establish ?

2 14058

What are the differences between COBOL and COBOL II?

CSC,

1 7928

Name the divisions in a COBOL program ?

7 17421

How can you submit a job from COBOL programs?

ITC Infotech,

2 12252

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

3 9728

What is the Purpose of POINTER Phrase in STRING command

3 17076

What does the INITIALIZE verb do?

1 11582

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

Microsoft,

3 7814

When would you use in-line perform?

2 6756

How do you come out of an EVALUATE statement?

3 9203

what is the difference between external and global variables?

1 17598

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Un-Answered Questions { COBOL }

Are you comfortable in cobol or jcl?

1043

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

1102

What is amode(31)

1168

What is a scope terminator give example?

1105

What is the difference between goback, stop run and exit program in cobol?

1583

Differentiate between structured cobol programming and object-oriented cobol programming.

1144

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

2537

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

1195

1.give the details about WHEN OTHER. 2. how many form are available in evaluate.

2100

What rules are to be followed while using the corresponding options?

1059

What is the difference between PIC 9.99 and PIC9v99?

1335

what are decleratives in cobol?

2255

input 1 input2 ouput1 output2 output 3 1 re 300 1 re 200 1 re 300 3 rc 500 1 re 200 2 rr 400 1 re 300 2 rr 400 1 rc 400 3 rc 500 1 rc 400 2 rr 700 2 rr 700 5 tt 900 5 tt 900 2 inputs r in flat file and output 1 is matched records,ouptput2 is unmatched of input1,output3 is unmatched of input2! how vl u get the output files using sequential order and to check with each and every records! let me know the procedure division ?

2294

Explain how you can characterize tables in cobol?

1057

Difference between cobol and cobol-ii?

1268

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