COBOL Interview Questions, Answers for Freshers and Experienced asked in various Company Job Interviews

COBOL Interview Questions

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Why is it necessary that file needs to be opened in I-O mode for REWRITE?

1386

What is the Purpose of Pointer in the string?

1125

How can we find that module can be called – whether DYNAMICALLY or STATICALLY?

1268

What is the use of LINKAGE SECTION?

1 1955

Which mode is used to operate the sequential file?

1257

What is the difference between comp and comp-3 usage?

1260

What are the access modes of START statement?

1329

Which is the default, TEST BEFORE or TEST AFTER for a PERFORM statement?

1396

How arrays can be defined in COBOL?

1298

What are INPUT PROCEDURE and OUTPUT PROCEDURE?

1367

Give some examples of command terminators?

1325

How many bytes S(8) comp field occupy and its maximum value?

2192

Which Search verb is equivalent to PERFORM…VARYING?

1106

What is the difference between Call and a Link?

1265

Can a Search can be done on a table with or without Index?

1333

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How did the release of cobol/370 version 1.3 improve the performance of release 1.1?

1131

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

2438

What the difference is between continue and next sentence?

1221

Why did you choose to work with ibm mainframe cobol programming?

1162

Which Search verb is equivalent to PERFORM…VARYING?

1106

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

2522

what are decleratives in cobol?

2311

1.give the details about WHEN OTHER. 2. how many form are available in evaluate.

2167

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

1298

how to refer the data field?

2324

What is difference between static and dynamic call in cobol?

1467

What rules are followed by the search verb.

1199

What are the various section in data division and briefly explain them.

1253

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

1330

i want to learn mainframe..any websites and material to learn from basic..? my mail id : rajeswaribe2010@gmail.com

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