COBOL Interview Questions
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Write a program to explain size error.

665

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

681

explain sorting techniques in cobol program?

678

Explain about different table spaces.

638

Explain sorting techniques in cobol program? Provide the sort file definition, the sort statement, its syntax and meaning

669

How are the next sentence and continue different from each other?

753

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

623

What is the problem of ordered sequential files access?

690

Write the code implementing the perform … varying.

635

how do you reference the variable block file formats from cobol programs

670

how do you reference the printer file formats from cobol programs

643

How to remove the spaces at the end of each record in the output file of variable length, via cobol program?

662

Discuss about changing dataset name in proc.

755

how do you reference the variable unblock file formats from cobol programs

731

how do you reference the fixed unblock file formats from cobol programs

698


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Un-Answered Questions { COBOL }

What is the difference between Call and a Link?

688


Describe the cobol database components?

668


Difference between array and sub-script ?

1147


What rules are to be followed while using the corresponding options?

627


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

631






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

635


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

724


Explain what you understand by passing by value.

685


How do define dynamic array in cobol. how do you define single dimensional array and multidimensional array in your cobol?

691


Discuss about changing dataset name in proc.

755


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


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 type of SDLC u followed? Why?

1510


Differentiate cobol and cobol-ii. (Most of our programs are written in cobolii, so, it is good to know, how, this is different from cobol)?

619


) How do u handle errors in BMS macro

1494