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MainFrame Interview Questions

Questions Answers Views Company eMail

What is Base Cluster ?

1 6261

Common VSAM Error conditions and codes

1 7538

Can you Average the Characters ?

3 6199

Is CA(Control Area) is part of CI(Control Interval)

1 4342

What is the use Free space in CI ?

4 8741

Is CA(Control Area) is part of CI(Control Interval)

3 6874

how to know that the file has 300 records how to acess it?

Hewitt, TCS,

2274

where did you see the information regarding abend codes in jcl?

Hewitt,

1 5335

if we have a 10 steps how to override the 4th step in jcl?

Hewitt,

2 6965

how would you resolve sb37 and SE37?

Hewitt,

2 16850

if you give cylinder(1,1)how many cylinders it will be allocate?

Hewitt,

3 8931

how to display the dataset information?

2 6251

what is s013u000 for?

Hewitt,

1 5329

What is DCLGEN ?

3 8533

what is SPUFI ?

2 7567

Un-Answered Questions { MainFrame }

What does runstats do in db2?

1126

What are Naming Conventions in QMF?

1831

Explain the function of the steplib dd statement?

1142

What is meant by mpp mode?

1110

Is it possible to port existing applications from the mainframe or os/2? Are there major changes required to do this?

911

what are the commands used to gain exclusive control over a resource?

1225

How to check table size in db2 sap?

1045

can we describe the results of opening for input empty vsam files in a cobol program?

1018

How to compare two files by using sort?

1024

How to get the last record in vsam file in cluster?

1018

What does a disposition of (MOD,DELETE,DELETE) mean ?

1136

what is DSN in JCL and what are the parameters to declare the DSN?

1202

If I want to execute Sftp commands(LS & GET) stored in Physical file from CL program automatically...Can u Plz tell me how can I do this?...How the script will look?? THANX FOR NY HELP...

2781

explain the use of dftwrt display keyword?

1769

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

1097

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