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COBOL Interview Questions

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

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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)?

1055

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

1088

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

1118

What are the different rules for performing sort operation?

1155

Write down the divisions of cobol program?

1149

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

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Name the sections present in data division.

1175

What is the difference between binary search and sequential search?

1043

Define in-line perform?

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What is the use of intialize verb?

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Write some characteristics of cobol as means of business language.

1078

Define cobol?

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What are different data types in cobol?

1227

Define static linking and dynamic linking.

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What is the utilization of copybook in cobol?

1114

What is the difference between PIC 9.99 and 9v99 in COBOL?

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What are the different rules for performing sort operation?

1155

INREC AND OUTREC? HOW TO SPLIT 5K RECORDS TO DIFFERENT FILES IN A FILE IN COBOL? RESTART IN COBOL-DB2? ISOLATION LEVELS?

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please..could u give an example about USAGE IS POINTER ..and explain why and when we use it ?

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What is the difference between Global and External Variables?

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What is rmode(any) ?

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

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Define cobol?

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What is a scope terminator give example?

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

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)If there are 10 steps in GDG, if I want to refer the step2 after step5 . what should I do?

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Program A (Normal COBBAT) calling a B Program (DB2COBOL, COBBATDB which is using a VSAM file. its a dynamic call. How we will handle VSAM file decleration in our from JCL from where we are running A PGM. And should we have PLAN for A pGM also. if possible can some one post a sample JCL. Thanks for help in advance.

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how to convert the recors form vsam file to db2 table tru file aid

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

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