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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 22156

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

IBM,

2336

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 10141

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

iNautix,

4 14088

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 7331

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 21741

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

IBM,

4 11833

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

UST,

2310

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

Fidelity,

1 9364

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 8563

what is difference between cobol and cobol/400

HCL,

1 22777

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 5265

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 10009

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 6684

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 12705

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Write a cobol program making use of the redefine clause.

1134

What is the Purpose of POINTER Phrase in STRING command in COBOL?

1208

What is the difference between Call and a Link?

1137

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

1967

What is the difference between structured cobol programming and object alternativelyiented cobol programming?

1197

What is a SSRANGE and NOSSRANGE?

1425

Differentiate cobol and cobol-ii. (Most of our programs are written in cobolii, so, it is good to know, how, this is different from cobol)?

1078

what is amode(24), amode(31), rmode(24) and rmode(any)?

1106

Write the code to count the sum of n natural numbers.

1165

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

7481

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

1389

What are the different open modes available in cobol?

1167

What are declaratives and what are their uses in cobol?

1154

what is difference bt COND, REGION & TIME parameters at JOB & EXEC. give an exp.

9038

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

1187

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