MainFrame Interview Questions
Questions Answers Views Company eMail

What is the most common way of building queue-id of a TSQ? (Name the constituents of the Queue ID).

2 4620

What does the BUFFER option in RECEIVE mean ?

IBM,

1 4312

What is temporary storage?

IBM,

1 3387

Specify the CICS command used to read a VSAM record starting with prefix ?F?. Code all the relevant options.

IBM,

2 6362

What is an MDT (Modified Data Tag) - it's meaning and use?

Polaris,

2 27661

What is a logical message in CICS?

IBM, Syntel, Wipro,

1 5380

Which is the control table where you specify all the transaction that are to be started by CICS after CICS

4 5570

What is the difference between using the READ command with INTO option and SET option?

IBM,

2 4695

What are the CICS commands associated with temporary storage queue processing?

2 10084

Which is the AID that will not be identified in the ANYKEY option of the HANDLE AID command?

1 5249

How would you resolve an ASRA abend?

IBM,

2 16003

What are the differences between and EXEC CICS XCTL and an EXEC CICS START command?

1 8538

What is the general Command format of CICS ?

Amdocs,

1 4809

What other file control processing commands are used for file updating?

1 3898

Can you access QSAM (seq ) files from CICS ?

IBM,

2 7858


Un-Answered Questions { MainFrame }

Explain in brief how does db2 determine what lock-size to use?

585


What is length is cobol?

636


Explain how do you access the records randomly in tsq?

579


what is the syntax of ams modal commands?

766


What is ENQ?

641






What is the problem of ordered sequential files access?

688


How is it possible to do a cross-sysplex copy of a PDS dataset by running one JCL on the target sysplex? I tried to use IEBCOPY with SUBSYS & CSM as follows: //CSMTRAN1 EXEC PGM=IEBCOPY //SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT=* //SYSUT1 DD DSN=PDS-Dataset-name-from,DISP=SHR, // SUBSYS=(CSM,'SYSPLEXNAME-FROM') //SYSUT2 DD DSN=PDS-Dataset-name-to,DISP=OLD, // SUBSYS=(CSM,SYSPLEXNAME-TO') //SYSIN DD DUMMY This did not work. I always get the following error "IEB1071E DD NAME SYSUT1 IS SUPPOSED TO BE A PARTITIONED DATA SET BUT IT HAS NO DIRECTORY. EXPECT A TERMINAL I/O ERROR. (DS1LSTAR=X'000000' DS1DSORG=X'0000' JFCDSORG=X'0200') " The source dataset is a catalogued pds dataset with many entries. The target dataset is allocated in the same job some lines before the transfer. I got an example like this for PS datasets with IEBGENER. But for PO datasets there should be a similar possibility...

3643


What does a finish do in idms?

511


How dummy is used in jcl?

632


What is the advantages of using IDMS compared to other database systems?

984


Tandem COBOL Interview questions (on TACL,SCOBOL,ENSCRIBE,PATHWAY0

22785


by using xpeditor if we want to debug the subpgm, how can you code in x-ped for mai-pgm n sub-pgm ?

1773


How ENQ and DEQ used in CICS?

786


What is the syntax of JCL statement?

679


What are the jcl procedures?

635