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

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MainFrame Interview Questions

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If there is no row in Emp table with Ename as Raghava and you run the below queries in SPUFI. 1.select Ename from EMP wher Ename = 'raghava' 2.Select count(*) from EMP where Ename = 'raghava' What is SQLCODE shown up in SPUFI

ADP,

4 10190

What is STACK in Natural? How we can use it in Program? Give me Eg.?

IBM,

2 14940

what is the use of cursors?

iGate,

3 7436

For update of a row in cursors, when do we move value into host variable in cobol progrm? is it before open or before fetch ?

iGate,

2 8443

What is Control Break processing ?

iGate,

1 10169

why subproc not run in dftactgrp?????/plz explain

CSC,

2 7964

what is *place and *auto keyword in prtf ?plz explain

CSC,

3164

How can we extract data from IMS DB and load it onto oracle database by converting it.Pls someone help me

TCS,

2 5263

Without using move verb how to move one variable to another.

5 14123

what is batch debug in as400?

3 11545

What are the types of performs in COBOL? How does perform thru work, give example.

2 7585

Given below code, find the value of 'x'. Perform s001-x thru s001-y. s001-x. add 1 to x . s001-1x. ------- . s001-y. perform s001-1y 10 times . s001-1y. perform s001-2y 10 times . s001-2y. perform s001-x 10 times .

1 4575

What are the CICS tables? How to traverse from one screen (program) to another on CICS?

1 6797

what is the job entry system used in your project?

3 7332

This was on MQseries. What does MQ queue Manager do? what are the different types of queues? do you know about remote queues etc. How do you delete records from queues? how do you empty queues?

1 4457

Un-Answered Questions { MainFrame }

What are the parameter we cannot use in procedure?

1140

is there any other way to install s/w in mainframe apart from smp/e system?

2633

what is the purpose of dynslt keyword?

1758

how do you reference the fixed unblock file formats from cobol programs

1248

What is next sentence and continue unique?

1057

How to add 99 menu (page down) option in menu creation..

2367

Explain the address converter?

1016

State all the file open modes?

1082

Is db2 a mainframe database?

1006

How to override a dsn that is contained in a proc called by another proc? I need to do the override in the calling jcl?

1165

What is amode(24)?

1251

How many maximum base registers we can have in a single program?

1113

Differentiate between ci split and ca split?

1021

What is cobol coding sheet?

1240

//S10 EXEC PGM=ICETOOL //TOOLMSG DD SYSOUT=* //DFSMSG DD SYSOUT=* //CON DD DSN=VAR.INPUT1,DISP=SHR // DD DSN=VAR.INPUT2,DISP=SHR //OUT DD DSN=VAR.OUTPUT,DISP=(NEW,CATLG,DELETE), // SPACE=(CYL,(5,5)),UNIT=SYSDA //TOOLIN DD * * Splice the needed data from the two VB files together SPLICE FROM(CON) TO(OUT) ON(5,5,CH) WITHALL - WITH(12,5) WITH(22,20) VLENMAX /*

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