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

COBOL Interview Questions

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i have mainprogram and subgram...if i compile mainprogram without stop run..what will u get in compilation time?

HCL,

1 4062

i have mainprogram and subgram...if i compile mainprogram without stop run..what will u get in compilation time?

HCL,

5 11734

Which of the following characters is NOT valid in column 7? a. - b. \ c. * d. # e. $

4 8712

Is It Possible to Update or change in VIEW Mode?

CSC,

5 12697

2)Where the Plan is located in CICS-DB2?

IBM,

1 5581

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

IBM,

2 13559

How many types of sorts are there in cobol?

Cap Gemini,

5 14285

1.Is it possible to move the data from 99.99 to 99v99? 2.What is the CICS-vsam Compilation process? 3.In My GDG 5 generation will be there GDG3 got an abend what will happen? 4.In my GDG first generation is +1 And I want to add the new generation what will happen previous generation? 5.How can you give the PIC clause below conditions A). s9 (reddy), B). s9 (5) occurs 5 times? 6.How override the proc from a particular step? and what is symbolic and override Procs?

IBM,

5876

If a sub program is called from mainprogram.I have opened cursor in main program and Fetch the result in subprogram ,Is it possible ?If yes please tell me the reason.

1 7086

what is the difference between COBOL2 AND COBOL390?

L&T,

3115

How can i load all the data from a file to Table (array) in cobol.How i manage the occurs clause with out reading the file.Any options avilable ? Please can any one help me it is urgent?

HeadStrong,

2632

Suppose i have a variable with s9(18)v99 comp3 . what is the size of variable . If s9(18) comp3 is 10 bytes . There should be some difference between two allocations ? Thanks krishna chaitanya

CSC,

2 15389

Suppose i have a Cobol field of 10 byte. it contains a decimal sign.How to know where is the point location?

1 5961

I have a PS file and I would like to manually insert the binary values (like a COMP format) into the file. How can i do that? the way do in COMP-3 format.. suppose i want to insert -12345 in to file in comp-3 format. simply we can open a file in edit mode and do HEX-ON and insert the value . SEE BELOW-- 135 24D in 3 bytes - this will be COMP-3 presenatation of -12345.

1 6882

I have a File that has duplicate records. I need only those records that occur more than thrice.?

IBM, Wipro,

3 10010

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Give some examples of command terminators?

1325

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

1265

how to convert the recors form vsam file to db2 table tru file aid

3314

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

2597

What is the difference between Call and a Link?

1265

What are the rules of the move verb?

1323

) how do u code after getting data?

2211

What is the utilization of copybook in cobol? Could we utilize a similar copybook?

1275

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

1289

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

1544

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

1154

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...)

2445

Is it possible that the redefines clause has different picture clauses compared to the one it redefined?

1211

Explain what you understand by passing by value.

1203

What is link edit in cobol?

1269

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