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 18839

How may divisions are there in JCL-COBOL?

IBM,

5 16454

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

IBM,

1 12804

How is sign stored in a comp-3 field?

7 20021

What does the IS NUMERIC clause establish ?

2 12959

What are the differences between COBOL and COBOL II?

CSC,

1 6605

Name the divisions in a COBOL program ?

7 15023

How can you submit a job from COBOL programs?

ITC Infotech,

2 10897

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

3 8231

What is the Purpose of POINTER Phrase in STRING command

3 15504

What does the INITIALIZE verb do?

1 10777

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

Microsoft,

3 6585

When would you use in-line perform?

2 5749

How do you come out of an EVALUATE statement?

3 7983

what is the difference between external and global variables?

1 16538


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Un-Answered Questions { COBOL }

Name the divisions, which are available in a cobol program?

673


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...)

1913


Why did you choose to work with ibm mainframe cobol programming?

619


What is the difference between comp and comp-3?

688


Write the code implementing the perform … varying.

633






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

722


What are various search techniques in cobol? Explain.

635


Explain how you can characterize tables in cobol?

631


Difference between array and sub-script ?

1147


if we display var1 then what will b displayed in below condition. 77 var1 pic s9(2) value -10. 77 var1 pic s9(2) value -11. " " " -12. " " " -13. -14 ... ... -19.

5651


how to access the file from prodution from changeman tool and to submit a file to production

6658


Which is the default, TEST BEFORE or TEST AFTER for a PERFORM statement?

806


What are 77 levels used for?

648


How to remove the spaces at the end of each record in the output file of variable length, via cobol program?

659


IF I mention stop run in CICS what happens?

1881