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COBOL Interview Questions

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

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What are all the divisions of a COBOL program?

1273

What is the difference between Global and External Variables?

1440

What are the different rules to perform a Search?

1144

What is a SSRANGE and NOSSRANGE?

1533

Which division and paragraphs are mandatory for a COBOL program?

1335

What happens when we move a comp-3 field to an edited (say z (9). Zz-)?

1483

How many bytes do a s9 (7) comp-3 field occupy?

1 1975

Explain how to differentiate call by context by comparing it to other calls?

1247

What is an in line perform? When would you use it? Anything else you wish to say about it.

1143

How do you code cobol to access a parameter that has been defined in jcl? And do you code the parm parameter on the exec line in jcl?

1252

What is comp-1 and comp-2?

1280

What is the default value(s) for an initialize and what keyword allows for an override of the default?

1267

What is amode(24)?

1299

What are 77 levels used for?

1152

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Un-Answered Questions { COBOL }

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

1259

How do you define a variable of comp-1 and comp-2?

1260

What kind of error is trapped by on size error option?

1293

What is the compute verb? How is it used?

1188

Are you comfortable in cobol or jcl?

1093

What are the different types of condition in cobol and write their forms.

1154

What is the default value(s) for an initialize? What keyword will allow for an override of the default?

1169

How arrays can be defined in COBOL?

1298

When is inspect verb is used in cobol?

1314

What is redefines clause in COBOL?

1351

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

1271

) how do u code after getting data?

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What is an in line perform? When would you use it? Anything else you wish to say about it.

1143

Define static linking and dynamic linking.

1272

How to find out the closest prime number of an input number? I believe it has something to do with SEARCH and COBOL Linear Array.

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