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COBOL Interview Questions

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ID DIVISION. PROGRAM-ID. PLO. DATA DIVISION. WORKING-STORAGE SECTION. 01 VAR1 PIC 9(2). 01 VAR2 PIC X(2). PROCEDURE DIVISION. ACCEPT VAR2. MOVE VAR2 TO VAR1. STOP RUN. if i give 'PI' in var2 then what will b output of progr. any abend?????

TCS,

6 14521

can u give result for the fallowing example... 05 a pic 9(2) 05 b redifines a pic x(2). move 'xy' to b. display a,b.

IBM,

10 12698

How do pass the values to the parameters in cobol

2 6141

SUPPOSE I HAVE 60 CHARACTERS STING. IN THAT I WANT FIND OUT HOW MANY TIMES 'A'(ASSUME)WILL REPEATED AND I HAVE TO PASS 'E' IN PLACE OF 'A'ALONG THAT STRING.

Wipro,

2 6921

) How do you access the migrate the data from production region to development region

IBM,

1 4598

Where the Plan is located in CICS-DB2

IBM,

2 6347

How do you get the data to code the BMS macro?

IBM,

1966

what are the working storage fields in BMS macro?

IBM,

2 3643

what is the difference between PA & PF keys?

IBM,

1 5224

Whats the difference between search & search ALL?

IBM,

3 6531

If I want to increase the Limit in GDG. What should I do?

IBM,

1 6330

how do u list the abended jobs?

IBM,

1 4377

)If there are 10 steps in GDG, if I want to refer the step2 after step5 . what should I do?

IBM,

2011

What is ASKTIME, SUSPEND

IBM,

1 4977

) what is the difference between AID and HANDLE AID?

IBM,

2151

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Define cobol?

1400

What is difference between static and dynamic call in cobol?

1389

Discuss about changing dataset name in proc.

1234

Can we change the password using ALTER? anyone tried and changed?

2020

What is inspect in cobol ?

1298

i was faced one question- i have value -00001234.56 Suppress the zeroes and the output should be -1234.56 But Not - 1234.56 spaces should not be available after suppressing the zeroes. logic in jcl and cobol?

1327

here is my requirement A1 is alphanumeric with value 'A1B2C3D4' as defined below 05 A1 PIC X(8) VALUE IS 'A1B2C3D4' but i need to have A2,A3 as ABCD & 1234 repectively...... A2 = ABCD A3 = 1234 Can you please explain me what are the different ways to do it?

7892

Name some of the examples of COBOl 11?

3140

How you can read the file from bottom?

1156

what are decleratives in cobol?

2259

I have program P1 which calls file F1 which has 100 records and following structure 001 .................. 002 .................. 003 .................. 098 .................... 099 ................... 100 .................... Now I want to read these files and write these records in file F2 in following manner. 001 ...... 051 ..... 002 ...... 052 ..... 003 ...... 053 ..... .......... ....... .......... ....... .......... ....... 048 ........ 098 ...... 049 .......... 099 ....... 050 .... 100 ......

12376

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

1236

What are the rules of the move verb?

1266

If you are current on the owner of a set, what is the difference between an obtain next and obtain first? Actually in which topic will we use dis???Plz explain it clearly

3162

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

1167

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