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

830

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)?

819

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

833

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

872

What are the different rules for performing sort operation?

914

Write down the divisions of cobol program?

810

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

805

Name the sections present in data division.

868

What is the difference between binary search and sequential search?

812

Define in-line perform?

1 1740

What is the use of intialize verb?

944

Write some characteristics of cobol as means of business language.

794

Define cobol?

1046

What are different data types in cobol?

881

Define static linking and dynamic linking.

835


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What is inspect in cobol ?

956


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

886


) How do u handle errors in BMS macro?

1584


What is redefines clause in COBOL?

999


How you can characterize tables in cobol?

891






i was faced one question- i have value -00001234.56 Suppress the zeroes and the output should be -1234.56 But Not - 1234.56 spaces should not be available after suppressing the zeroes. logic in jcl and cobol?

1044


What is a report item?

879


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.

3909


What is the problem of ordered sequential files access?

874


What is the difference between next sentence and continue in cobol programing language?

918


Explain how will you differentiate between an internal and an external sort, the pros and cons, internal sort syntax etc

1008


HOw can I get the negative sign while deduct high value from low value

1963


Why do we code s9 (4) comp. Inspite of knowing comp-3 will occupy less space?

874


How to read the 2nd last record of a VSAM file? (The file size is huge and we don't know the key)

2960


What are the different rules for performing sort operation?

914