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COBOL Interview Questions

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In EBCDIC, how would the number 1234 be stored?

TCS,

2 10496

What are VS COBOL 11 special features?

1 5207

What are options have been removed in COBOL 11?

1 4059

What is the reference modification.

2 10969

How would the number +1234 be stored if a PIC clause of PICTUREs9(4) comp-3 were used?

6 16232

What is an index for tables?

2 6607

What is a subscript ?

3 7574

What is Alternate Index ? How is it different from regular index ?

2 14894

What is CALL statement in COBOL?

4 17177

When can the USING phrase be included in the call statement ?

2 6765

What does the initialize statement do ?

2 7240

What are the two search techniques ?

iGate,

2 10054

consider the following piece of code 01 GROSS-PAY 05 BASIC-PAY PIC 9(5) 05 ALLOWENCES PIC 9(3) if BASIC-PAY has a value 1000 and ALLOWENCES has a value of 250,what will be displayed by the statement DISPLAY GROSS-PAY a.1250 b.01000250 c.01250 d.1.250

TCS,

3 8853

consider two data items 77 W-A PIC 9(3)V99 VALUE 23.75 77 W-B PIC ZZ9V99 VLAUE 123.45 after the statement MOVE W-A TO W-B what will be W-B's value? a.123.75 b.b23.75 (where b indicates space) c.023.75 d.invalid move

TCS,

5 12658

what is the result of the following? DIVIDE A INTO B GIVING C. a.C=A/B b.the reminder of B/A is stored in C c.C=B/A d.the reminder of A/B is stored in C

TCS,

3 14408

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What are the rules of the move verb?

1269

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

2011

In COBOL, what is the different between index and subscript?

1245

what is difference between cobol and cobol/400

22929

What is the difference between comp and comp-3 usage?

1201

what is search and searchall?what is the diffrence between them?give an best example?

6832

Explain what you understand by passing by value.

1157

what is the difference between COBOL2 AND COBOL390?

3058

i have 10 names in an array and my name is one of them also array is not in sorted order i need to display my name using index how will i do this

1540

i want to learn mainframe..any websites and material to learn from basic..? my mail id : rajeswaribe2010@gmail.com

2221

how can we apply for HSBC exam(Mainframe) in India??? i went to their site and was told to submit my CV ,. etc..( totally confusing...)

2400

What is the difference between binary search and sequential search?

1091

IF I mention stop run in CICS what happens?

2379

How to know whether the module is dynamical or statistical?

1144

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

1115

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