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

Is It Possible to Update or change in VIEW Mode?

CSC,

5 12504

2)Where the Plan is located in CICS-DB2?

IBM,

1 5513

If I want to increase the Limit in GDG. What should I do?

IBM,

2 13460

Can we use two or more SYSPUNCH DD statements in a JCL for multiple unload (SYSREC00 & SYSREC01)..?

1 8788

How many types of sorts are there in cobol?

Cap Gemini,

5 14129

1.Is it possible to move the data from 99.99 to 99v99? 2.What is the CICS-vsam Compilation process? 3.In My GDG 5 generation will be there GDG3 got an abend what will happen? 4.In my GDG first generation is +1 And I want to add the new generation what will happen previous generation? 5.How can you give the PIC clause below conditions A). s9 (reddy), B). s9 (5) occurs 5 times? 6.How override the proc from a particular step? and what is symbolic and override Procs?

IBM,

5813

If a sub program is called from mainprogram.I have opened cursor in main program and Fetch the result in subprogram ,Is it possible ?If yes please tell me the reason.

1 6996

in options (main) , what is meaning of main . if u not used main what will happen? After compiling, os will not understand where to load and execute from

AppLabs,

2194

how many types of sorts are there in jcl?

IBM,

2 6906

the command to open a dataset directly from the JCL instead of opening it separately using 3.4 option.

IBM,

7 26070

SQLCODE = -199, ERROR: ILLEGAL USE OF KEYWORD CHAR, TOKEN KEY was expected

11687

What is the component?what are the different components there using cobol and cics

IBM, SPIC,

2 8241

we hav job which is running as batch. it takes atleast 06hours to complete tht job. bu i wana do tht job with in 3hours.........? so plz post ur answers

Cap Gemini, IBM,

8 14109

Hi i have one question In my srvpgm one module ADDM is there now i want to add new module i.e SUBM , please answer me IN STEPS how to write bndlanguage and how it was attach to SRVPGM

IBM, Satyam,

2 8472

i have 10,000 records in one input file.i want to sort 1 to 5000 records in one outputfile and remaining records sort in another output file write the syntax for this?

DELL,

4 21155

Un-Answered Questions { MainFrame }

How can we change the uppercase to Lowercase in RPG?

1432

What are the sub parameters for undo command?

1094

how can we apply for HSBC exam(Mainframe) in India??? i went to their site and was told to submit my CV ,. etc..( totally confusing...)

2403

give three main purposes of file specification ?

1742

IIN APITUDE THEY GAVE ONLY 10 QUESTIONS.. THEY ARE SIMPLE ONE FROM NUMBER SERIES,BOATS,TIME & DISTANCE,PROFIT &LOSS,FIND OUT THE NUMBER ? 9 25 4 36 81 64 49 AND surveillance SPELLINGS E.T.C

2187

Explore the syntax of the evaluate statement?

965

What is the batch job?

990

WORKING-STORAGE SECTION. 01 GROSS-PAY. 05 BASIC-PAY PIC 9(5). 05 ALLOWENCES PIC 9(3). PROCEDURE DIVISION. MOVE 1000 TO BASIC-PAY. MOVE 250 TO ALLOWENCES. DISPLAY GROSS-PAY. STOP RUN. 77 W-A PIC 9(3)V99 VALUE 23.75 77 W-B PIC ZZ9V99 VLAUE 123.45 after the statement MOVE W-A TO W-B what will be W-B's value? a.123.75 b.b23.75 (where b indicates space) c.023.75 d.invalid move

1376

What is file identifier where we can use?

1134

What is the difference between "db2ilist" and "db2 get instance" commands in DB2 Database Server?

1276

What is db2 command?

1044

What does the 'cedf:cics' transactions do?

1069

how can you prevent more than one user from accessing the same transient data queue?

1096

What does the following code do? Ap wkur,=p5 where wkur is a label?

1093

What is comp-1 and comp-2?

1234

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