COBOL Interview Questions
Questions Answers Views Company eMail

What is file status 92?

3 26620

What is the difference between SEARCH and SEARCH ALL?

Cognizant,

6 12543

comp-3 field occupy?

5 8340

How is sign stored in a COMP field ?

Accenture,

3 22052

What is LENGTH in COBOL II?

CSC,

2 9925

What is the LINKAGE SECTION used for?

4 7603

What is Redefines clause?

8 19734

What are the different forms of EVALUATE statement?

IBM, Micro Labs,

2 14182

Describe the difference between subscripting and indexing ?

2 5304

How do you set a return code to the JCL from a COBOL program?

4 27556

What is the significance of 'above the line' and 'below the line'?

Nokia,

2 7761

What is level 66 used for ?

TCS,

3 13802

How do you sort in a COBOL program? Give sort file definition, sort statement syntax and meaning.

CGI, TCS,

7 26178

What do you do to resolve SOC-7 error?

Sun Life, Wipro,

2 11637

What compiler option would you use for dynamic linking?

2 8293


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Un-Answered Questions { COBOL }

If you are current on the owner of a set, what is the difference between obtain next and obtain first?

628


What rules are to be followed while using the corresponding options?

627


Write a program that uses move corresponding.

658


what is search and searchall?what is the diffrence between them?give an best example?

5508


I have a program with an Array of 5000 occurences which is being passed from 5 sub levels to the front end screen. Thess 5 programs using each 5*2 = 10 different arrays with size as 5000. This is causing the transaction to utilize more storage consupmtion. I am looking to reduce the storage consumption. As part of that initially i thought Dynamic array may solve my problem. After viewing the comments given i see its same as normal array. IS there any other way we can resolve this issue?

1217






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

1509


Have you used comp and comp-3 in your project? And how?

1995


) How do u handle errors in BMS macro

1491


What is rmode(24)

669


i made it to stage 3 of an interview process wednessday they will quiz my knowledge again face to face for an analyst role recruiter said it will be based on Business requirements system is cobol and good ideas what they might ask etc

2088


Explain what you understand by passing by value.

681


How do you reference the following file formats from cobol programs?

683


INREC AND OUTREC? HOW TO SPLIT 5K RECORDS TO DIFFERENT FILES IN A FILE IN COBOL? RESTART IN COBOL-DB2? ISOLATION LEVELS?

398


HOw can I get the negative sign while deduct high value from low value

1775


How many sections are there in data division in COBOL?

665