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COBOL Interview Questions

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how to remove leading spaces and zeroes in a cobol variable.is there any easy way to do it

2 22407

How to use the same COBOL program in Batch and CICS on lines? explain with an example

IBM,

2438

In my table having 3000 Records. How can I delete the 500th row? (we don't know what is data inside the table)

Keane India Ltd,

3 10400

sample code for read a 2nd record from last in flatfile how can do?

iNautix,

4 14441

A cobol program to read a file , match it with other if. If match occurs then write it to an output file. If no match then no need to write it.Error log created by program to track any error.

1 7498

what is lrec=f,what is difference between f,fb,v,vb?what is default value?how do we came to know that records are in f,fb,v,vb?

IBM, Wipro,

2 21981

I had 100 records and i want to execute last three records by using cobol programming?what will be coding?

IBM,

4 12165

How do get the result of your program directly on your pc?

UST,

2396

What is diff between vsam and db2?what is advantage of db2 over vsam?which is best suited one?

Fidelity,

1 9500

Hi................... I have records like this aaaa cccc bbbb And i want output like this bbbb cccc aaaa How can it possible ?. Note:Please make sure records are in unsorted order. somebody plzzz help me.

1 9474

what is difference between cobol and cobol/400

HCL,

1 23082

In file1 have 80 records are like d1,d2,d3......D80. File2 have 1000records are like a1d1,a1d2,a3d3.....Etc. I want matching records in file3 ? Plse tell me the matching logic???I want answer only in cobol ?Not using any tool or jcl?

CSC,

1 5465

have in 100 records in a file i want to read first 3 records and skip next 3 records and agan i want to read 3 records and again i want to skip 3 records...

ITC Indian Tobacco Company, PNP, TCS,

2 10239

i have n records in one file and in this file there is some fields and i want to count that how many sharma in my file so plz give the coding that how we read sharma ?

2 6871

have in 100 records in a flat file i want to move records like 1,3,5,7,9,11,.. to Output file1 and 2,4,6,8,10,12,14 .. records moved to Output file2..Pls Provide real time answer..

TCS,

5 13055

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How arrays can be defined in COBOL?

1298

what happens if parmparameter passes zero bytes to the program

2185

What is an in line perform? When would you use it? Anything else you wish to say about it.

1143

what is the use of outrecord?

2274

What is the use of intialize verb?

1299

Name some of the examples of COBOl 11?

3196

What is the utilization of copybook in cobol?

1276

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?

8031

System Testing for Mainframe Developers What is System Testing? integration testing ? what's the procedure ..

2135

A table has two indexes defined. Which one will be used by the SEARCH?

1330

What is link edit in cobol?

1269

How to change size of Initial number of records to *NOMAX for ALL PF files from perticular library, how can I do that

3277

What are the rules of the move verb?

1323

) what is the difference between AID and HANDLE AID?

2200

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

1274

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