MainFrame Interview Questions
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i made it to stage 3 of an interview process wednessday they will quiz my knowledge again face to face for an analyst role recruiter said it will be based on Business requirements system is cobol and good ideas what they might ask etc

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which is better comp or comp-3 in terms of memory utilization?

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Can anybody tell me that why we use option(*nodebugio)in H- Spec?

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Move Zeroes to I move 5 to j perform para1 varying I from 10 by -2 until I = 0 display j. para1. Add 5 to j. What’ll be the value after execution of display stmt. A) 35 B) 40 C) 30 D) 25 please explain how?

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WE HAVE 5 DIFFERENT RECORDING MODE IN COBOL.FIXED, FIXEDBLOCK, VARIABLE, VARIABLEBLOCK AND UNDEFINED. WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE AMONG ALL AND WHICH TYPE OF FORMAT SHOULD BE USED WHEN

Infosys,

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can anybody help me that what is the procedure of debugging the service program?

CSC,

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What techniques will be used to avoid deadlock??

IBM, SUN,

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we can code COPY DCLGEN or INCLUDE DCLGEN, At which stage of the precompilation , dclgen get expanded if we write 1) copy 2) include one question about dclgen.. Is it mandatory to use declare table in dclgen.. I think no...but it will be used by the precompiler to validate the table name,column name etc.., can one clear my doubt ..is it necessary to include declare table or not?

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we can use set true for condition names.. similarly can we code set to false in cobol pgm? will it work?

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01 a pic s9(5) value -12345, if we disply a , the sign will overpunched with last digit but i need to get the miuns sign in the result?

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01 b pic +9(4) How many bytes it will take for storage???

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One program calling 5 subprograms, its a cobol db2 program, after precompilation how many plans and packages will created?

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Is there any other debugging tool for expeditor?

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can u run online and batch at the same time?

IBM,

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How to rename one vsam file as well as it's index?

BEA,

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Un-Answered Questions { MainFrame }

Under idcams, multiple functions can be executed, each of which returns a condition code. What will be the condition code returned to the operating system?

593


What is the default page size of buffer pools?

651


In sms datasets, what is the function of the dd avgrec keyword?

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What is the physical storage length of the data types: date, time, timestamp in the db2 database?

656


Add a field to screen when what's the flow of impact?

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How do I change the column size in db2?

600


what is DD statement is used in JCL?

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How can the disposition of sysout datasets be set for an entire jobstream?

847


What is an OOK-Rec?

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can I redistribute oorexx freely with commercial software?

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What is host variable?

599


What is the maximum No of rows per page?

630


how does the runqry show the output?

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How can we arrange duplicate records in a file?

606


What is the binary search?

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