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COBOL Interview Questions

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Why we should use cursor ?

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I know my query will return more than one row but I don't want cursor what should I do?

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I have File 1 occurs 5 times with Employee-ID,Employee-Name,Employee-Dept (EEE and MECH). I have File 2 occurs 10 times with Employee-ID,Employee-Name,Employee-Dept (EEE,CIVIL,CHEMICAL and MECH). In FIle 1 and FIle 2 , for matching Employee-DEPT (Only MECH) , we need to move entire records from file1 to file 2. We should not use 2D array. Your help is needed here.

Steria,

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Hi Guys, I have faced one interview question if I have requirement to add 5 new columns to existing table what are prerequisite do i need to take.

1 2845

Difference between file status codes 02 and 22.... since both are for duplicate key detection.

1 3039

what is the use of keep and pass in disp

1 2752

Difference between array and sub-script ?

HCL,

1620

Extract only those records from a PS file which are having word 'TEXT' in the records using COBOL? The word TEXT is not present in a particular position in all the records.

RBS,

2 3741

which is Best IBM Mainframe Training and Placement Institute in Ameerpet Hyderabad

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Read a flat file and write last but one (I have n records in a file I have to write n-1th) record in another flat file. Could you please provide me the code in COBOL?

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if we have " ibm mainframe ",in that how to remove first and last leading space eg:"ibm mainframe" like that the answer we need

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I have a COBOL main program which is calling sub program, the number of calling parameters used in main program are 4 whereas in sub program it's 5. Sub program is passing 5 parameters back to main program Will there be any compilation error? Or main program parameters displays junk values?

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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

1488

What is the difference between Structured COBOL Programming and Object Oriented COBOL programming?

TryTechnicals Pvt Ltd,

1079

What is report-item in COBOL?

Arigo Infotech,

1118

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Un-Answered Questions { COBOL }

What is amode(24), amode(31), rmode(24) and rmode(any) (applicable to only mvsesa enterprise server) ?

1138

What is the use of intialize verb?

1197

What are the different rules to perform a Search?

1056

What are 77 levels used for?

1072

What is perform what is varying?

1124

) how do u code after getting data?

2102

what happens if parmparameter passes zero bytes to the program

2096

What are INPUT PROCEDURE and OUTPUT PROCEDURE?

1243

Which is not true about evaluate statement

2408

How to traceback if I am getting SOC7 or SOC4 abend? List down the steps

5328

Write a program that uses move corresponding.

1096

What type of SDLC u followed? Why?

1972

What guidelines should be followed to write a structured cobol prgm?

1112

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

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what are decleratives in cobol?

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