COBOL Interview Questions, Answers for Freshers and Experienced asked in various Company Job Interviews

COBOL Interview Questions

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

856

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)?

839

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

859

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

899

What are the different rules for performing sort operation?

942

Write down the divisions of cobol program?

836

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

828

Name the sections present in data division.

893

What is the difference between binary search and sequential search?

847

Define in-line perform?

1 1782

What is the use of intialize verb?

964

Write some characteristics of cobol as means of business language.

829

Define cobol?

1064

What are different data types in cobol?

903

Define static linking and dynamic linking.

863

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here is my requirement A1 is alphanumeric with value 'A1B2C3D4' as defined below 05 A1 PIC X(8) VALUE IS 'A1B2C3D4' but i need to have A2,A3 as ABCD & 1234 repectively...... A2 = ABCD A3 = 1234 Can you please explain me what are the different ways to do it?

7281

How to know whether the module is dynamical or statistical?

860

Can you please let me know the centre name of INS certification in Kolkata.

1938

Which is not true about evaluate statement

2082

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

959

How to fetch 1000 error records from VSAM file(Eg: 1000000 records present) while getting SOC7 abend ?

2219

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

904

Can we change the password using ALTER? anyone tried and changed?

1739

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

994

Describe the cobol database components?

879

What is the difference between structured cobol programming and object alternativelyiented cobol?

981

EXPLAIN MAIN FRAME TESTING PROCESS...HOW TO FIX THE MAINFRAME BUGS?

2282

What are the different data types in cobol?

1035

Whats the difference between search & search ALL?

5849

How you can read the file from bottom?

866

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