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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?

1285

What are all the divisions of a COBOL program?

1219

What is the difference between Global and External Variables?

1377

What are the different rules to perform a Search?

1098

What is a SSRANGE and NOSSRANGE?

1470

Which division and paragraphs are mandatory for a COBOL program?

1277

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 1901

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.

1076

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?

1203

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?

1212

What is amode(24)?

1241

What are 77 levels used for?

1108

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What is the difference between comp and comp-3?

1185

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

1327

What is a report item?

1143

How to change size of Initial number of records to *NOMAX for ALL PF files from perticular library, how can I do that

3234

What is the difference between goback, stop run and exit program in cobol?

1591

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

2345

How do you reference the following file formats from cobol programs?

1164

Difference between cobol and cobol-ii?

1279

What are the different rules to perform a Search?

1098

Define static linking and dynamic linking.

1195

What is the difference between external and global variables in COBOL?

1466

what is the difference between COBOL2 AND COBOL390?

3054

What do you understand by psb and acb?

1124

What is rmode(24)

1146

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

1115

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