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

743

What are all the divisions of a COBOL program?

655

What is the difference between Global and External Variables?

652

What are the different rules to perform a Search?

610

What is a SSRANGE and NOSSRANGE?

802

Which division and paragraphs are mandatory for a COBOL program?

701

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

760

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

1 1167

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

677

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

633

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?

687

What is comp-1 and comp-2?

751

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

681

What is amode(24)?

676

What are 77 levels used for?

648


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

669


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

846


input= ,,,, mainframe training ,,, hyderabad .... location.... output1=$ mainframe training in hyderabad location$ output2=**** mainframe training in hyderabad location ****. In this pgn when we give input considering the spaces the output is displayed in this format.Like in the place of ,,,, $ should be displayed likewise.So please helpmeout.

1768


What are the different open modes available in cobol?

711


How can i load all the data from a file to Table (array) in cobol.How i manage the occurs clause with out reading the file.Any options avilable ? Please can any one help me it is urgent?

2087






How do you get the data to code the BMS macro?

1466


I need to compare 3 variables(dates) and do some processing based on the earliest date. There could be more then 1 date record in any of the 3 fields. What is the best way to code this?

1794


What are declaratives and what are their uses in cobol?

695


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

656


) how do u code after getting data?

1575


Which Search verb is equivalent to PERFORM…VARYING?

672


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

619


Give some examples of command terminators?

745


what happens if parmparameter passes zero bytes to the program

1648


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

695