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

i want to learn mainframe..any websites and material to learn from basic..? my mail id : rajeswaribe2010@gmail.com

2228

Is it possible to delete Symbolic Map? What is the impactness if we delete symbolic map?

CTS,

3 11435

I have sequential file recl 1000 i want to add another 15 bytes to it. The record length should not change..How?

CTS, HCL,

1 5186

How to print data of sequential file to Spool..?

2 8119

Particular area has been affected in cics screen, what is the process to find?

Cap Gemini,

3 9900

before altering a table is it necessary to lock ? if lock what is it ? how to do ? ifi want to lock a table what is that command ?

IBM,

2186

what is the total syntax for fetch ? can any one please give me all the details of fetch ? thx

IBM,

2 6408

can we view the access paths created by dbrm ? how ? thx

IBM,

2 7107

suppose in my table 10 rows are there , i want to update odd rows salary as 90000 ? how u do it ? any one help me ? what do we use here cursor-fetch or normal sql ?

IBM,

5 10851

i have a ps with two columns eno and ename , i need to copy eno column values in one ps and ename column values in one Ps ? is it possible through iebgener . how ? thx in advance

IBM, TCS,

1 6853

wht is packed decimal in cobol

2 7278

How do you round the addition or subtraction of two numbers in assembler? what does the following code do? AP WKUR,=P'5' where WKUR is a label

CSC, IBM,

3 10663

what is sort? whis is internal & external sort ?when do u go for inter sort & external sort? tell about some sort utilites?

BirlaSoft,

2 8712

without jcl how to run the batch programs

IBM,

2544

how to run batch program without jcl?

HSBC, IBM,

3 11567

Un-Answered Questions { MainFrame }

What is a record lock error?

1777

What is the difference between external and global variables in COBOL?

1473

What os does db2 run on?

994

how are start and xctl different?

970

what are the different types of arrays available in rpg ?

1723

Is their any limit for data sets?

1192

How dummy is used in jcl?

1153

what is data area and how it is used in rpg program ?

1327

What is image copy in db2?

1023

Explain about mirror activator disk mirroring?

1018

When you are working with the project.. once your coding is over what will u do? where u r maintaining your CR(change request) what is the format what are the documents u need to prepare while testing?

2011

Write some characteristics of cobol as means of business language.

1147

What is the syntax for FETCH in DB2 ?

1222

What is null in db2?

1031

how to write *pssr ?

1083

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