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

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MainFrame Interview Questions

Questions Answers Views Company eMail

In an EVALUTE statement is the order of the WHEN clauses significant?

4 12561

Give some advantages of REDEFINES clause?

Syntel,

2 20916

How do you do in-line PERFORM?

Accenture,

4 18351

Explain call by context by comparing it to other calls.

1 9161

What does EXIT do ?

Deloitte,

3 13756

what is Pic 9v99 Indicates?

2 13617

What is an explicit scope terminator?

3 20320

COMP?

2 6418

What should be the sorting order for SEARCH ALL?

5 10700

How is sign stored in Packed Decimal fields and Zoned Decimal fields?

ABC, HCL, TCS,

6 38226

How do you define a table/array in COBOL?

Hexaware,

5 31484

When is a scope terminator mandatory?

3 9242

How do you submit JCL via a Cobol program?

IBM,

5 20929

What is the difference between a DYNAMIC and STATIC call in COBOL?

2 13361

Differentiate COBOL and COBOL-II?

2579

Un-Answered Questions { MainFrame }

What is auto status in idms?

884

Define the attribute byte?

1167

Explain the input procedure and output procedure?

918

Explain how can values be passed from the job stream to an executable program?

1233

How to declare host variables?

996

What Is The Object Type Of Pf, Lf, Printer File & Display File?

1162

What is the difference between a return with transid and xctl?

1071

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

1230

Can you summarize the steps I have to go through in writing my first cgi?

1112

what is “Cond= even” and “Cond=only”?

1313

What is the purpose of rollback and commit?

1198

What is cascading rollback?

1219

How do u write test cases?

2070

I need exexution process for JCL programs

2283

what is the purpose of the indara keyword?

1760

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