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COBOL Interview Questions

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In EBCDIC, how would the number 1234 be stored?

TCS,

2 10479

What are VS COBOL 11 special features?

1 5199

What are options have been removed in COBOL 11?

1 4041

What is the reference modification.

2 10948

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

6 16202

What is an index for tables?

2 6594

What is a subscript ?

3 7555

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

2 14877

What is CALL statement in COBOL?

4 17161

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

2 6761

What does the initialize statement do ?

2 7236

What are the two search techniques ?

iGate,

2 10033

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 8840

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 12629

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 14389

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Un-Answered Questions { COBOL }

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

1241

i want a program using by if, evaluate , string, unstring, perform, occurs?

4719

Write the code to count the sum of n natural numbers.

1206

What is the compute verb? How is it used?

1140

Name the sections present in data division.

1238

What is a SSRANGE and NOSSRANGE?

1461

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

1089

Why did you choose to work with ibm mainframe cobol programming?

1097

What are the rules of the move verb?

1264

Explain how to differentiate call by context by comparing it to other calls?

1183

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

1243

Discuss about changing dataset name in proc.

1233

Write some characteristics of cobol as means of business language.

1142

how to refer the data field?

2266

How do you get the data to code the BMS macro?

1963

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