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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 22144

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 10125

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

iNautix,

4 14069

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 7328

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 21736

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

IBM,

4 11821

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

UST,

2303

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

Fidelity,

1 9358

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 8509

what is difference between cobol and cobol/400

HCL,

1 22768

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 5258

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 10006

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 6679

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 12690

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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...)

2349

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

1153

What is perform what is varying?

1120

There are 5 fields and 1000 records in a file. Unload it into an array. Write the syntax for declaration and how will you unload it.

1390

What are declaratives and what are their uses in cobol?

1146

Name the sections present in data division.

1186

What are INPUT PROCEDURE and OUTPUT PROCEDURE?

1237

) how do u code after getting data?

2098

What are the pertinent COBOL commands?

3115

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

7467

how to move the records from file to array table. give with code example

2641

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?

7761

What are the different rules to perform a Search?

1055

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

1122

i have 10 names in an array and my name is one of them also array is not in sorted order i need to display my name using index how will i do this

1483

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