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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?

1283

What are all the divisions of a COBOL program?

1214

What is the difference between Global and External Variables?

1377

What are the different rules to perform a Search?

1097

What is a SSRANGE and NOSSRANGE?

1467

Which division and paragraphs are mandatory for a COBOL program?

1276

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

1407

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

1 1897

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

1186

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

1074

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?

1202

What is comp-1 and comp-2?

1230

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

1211

What is amode(24)?

1235

What are 77 levels used for?

1106

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Write a program to explain size error.

1199

What is a report item?

1140

Write some characteristics of cobol as means of business language.

1142

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

1115

What are the different rules for performing sort operation?

1224

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

1203

Write down the divisions of cobol program?

1253

how do you reference the esds vsam file formats from cobol programs

1216

State the various causes of s0c1, s0c5 and s0c7.

1081

Whats the difference between search & search ALL?

6531

I have to write to a outfile where the number of records in that file should be the header of that file using IMS.. can anyone help me in this issue

2538

How do get the result of your program directly on your pc?

2340

what happens if parmparameter passes zero bytes to the program

2131

Differentiate between structured cobol programming and object-oriented cobol programming.

1147

What is difference between static and dynamic call in cobol?

1389

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