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

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MainFrame Interview Questions

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i have a variable block which is used in my cobol program as input file having records of 4080 after compilation while runing the program im getiing file attribut mismatch and it is saying tht the record length of the file is 4084 can any one knw the answer how to reslove it ?

2 6163

whn do i get soc7 abend while moving alphanumeric to numeric or while moving numeric to aplhanumeric please reply ASAP?

9 16846

HOW TO SORT RECORDS IN VSAM FILE?

3 24018

I HAVE A VB BLOCK WHICH IS USED AS INPUT IN COBOL CONATINING SOME RECORDS CAN I CHANGE THE FILE FROM VB TO FB?

2565

HOW TO CONVERT VARIABLE BLOCK TO FIXED BLOCK ?

IBM,

1 32599

HOW TO MOVE REDEFINES CLAUSE FROM INPUT TO OUTPUT ?

1 4519

Did anybody attend the walkin of TCS on 31st July in Gurgaon for any technology,If u have completed 3 round i.e till the HR round,have u received the Offer letter yet? Please let me know.Thanks.

1 4351

I HAVE 500 ROW TO UPDATE I WOULD LIKE TO USE ROLLBACK ALONG WITH COMMIT.WHAT IS THE SYNTAX TO CODE COMMIT AND ROLLBACK FOR EVERY 100 ROWS.AND HOW THE CURSOR ROLLBACK TO THE LAST COMMITTING POINT.

ITC Infotech, Syntel,

3219

what is the syntax for FOR UPDATE CLAUSE in cursor declaration and how can u update using cursor? is it possible to update multiple rows at a time.

Syntel,

2 12453

OUTER JOINS USED TO GET MATCHING AND NONMATCHING ROWS FORM 2 OR MORE TABLES BASED ON COLUMNS. SIMPLE JOINS ALSO DO THE SAME THEN WHAT IS THE USE OF OUTER JOINS.

Syntel,

1 6766

TYPES OF SORTINGS. which is more prefarable.

Syntel, TCS,

2 8546

What is the difference b/w the CLASS,TIME,PRTY in jcl job card.

Syntel,

4 20457

i have 5 steps to execute in that i want to skip 3nd step and start execute from forth step how can u do this.

Syntel,

7 10920

how can u retrieve the data from null values using applicaion program.

TCS,

3 8817

When PGMA calls PGMB for the first time PGMB executes the *INZSR. PGMB uses the RETRN operation to return to PGMA. When PGMA call PGMB the second time is the *INZSR executed?

Mphasis,

5 13217

Un-Answered Questions { MainFrame }

What is the difference between crtdupobj and copyf?

1204

What makes vrrds different from vsam?

1253

How to create db2 table in mainframe?

1158

what is the syntax for plist?

1126

How is data passed from a calling program to an assembler called program?

1082

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

1248

what are the differences between temporary storage queue (tsq) and transient data quene (tdq)?

1232

Mention the downsides of page level lock.

1165

can you display a empty subfile?

1243

What do the compilers provide?

1442

what is the function of cpysplf command?

1696

what are the reserved words for cics?

1105

Are there any set of rules for the names of the steps used in a job? What are they?

1082

How are composite and multiple indexes different?

1015

hi,what is the module? how many modules in mainframe based banking projects

3001

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