MainFrame Interview Questions
Questions Answers Views Company eMail

What is the difference between Structured COBOL Programming and Object Oriented COBOL ?

1 5937

What is a scope terminator? Give examples.

2 8052

In an EVALUATE statement, can I give a complex condition on a when clause?

2 11958

What are different file OPEN modes available in COBOL?

Sun Life,

4 22040

The maximum number of dimensions that an array can have in COBOL-85 is ?

11 28311

What is the difference between performing a SECTION and a PARAGRAPH?

Accenture, Patni,

5 31154

In a COBOL II PERFORM statement, when is the conditional tested, before or after the perform execution?

3 7549

SIGN TRAILING SEPARATE field occupy ?

3 21690

How do you define a sort file in JCL that runs the COBOL program?

Syntel,

6 28104

What is file status 39 ?

JPMorgan Chase,

10 46815

What are the pertinent COBOL

IBM,

2046

What is COMP SYNC?

3 11187

What is the difference between CONTINUE & NEXT SENTENCE ?

2 7081

How to execute a set of JCL statements from a COBOL program?

Patni, Syntel,

2 12732

What is SSRANGE, NOSSRANGE ?

5 56166


Un-Answered Questions { MainFrame }

State the various causes of s0c1, s0c5 and s0c7.

665


What is the physical storage length of the data types date, time, and timestamp?

614


how a data in physical and symbolic map gets treated? Since the physical map is much concerned about the screen alignment and the field positions, how the values entered in the field which has PICIN or PICOUT clause in Physical map gets treated? Does that mean datas recieved or sent to the physical map should be constant? How does the data in Symbolic map gets converted with 5suffix namely F,L,A,I and O. For example EMPNO is treated as EMPNOI, EMPNOO, EMPNOA, EMPNOL and EMPNOF. how does this happen in symbolic map. Please provide your inputs on the above and kindly correct me if I am wrong.

2214


Explain how to receive data passed through jcl parm parameter in a natural program? How data definition is defined in the program?

614


Explain path?

542






How many bytes does a s9(7) comp-3 field occupy ?

554


What is cursor in dbms?

595


What is the function of dd name parameter with a 2 part structure; audit.report?

706


Explain the significance of the shareoptions parameter?

537


Is mainframe an operating system?

503


What is a SSRANGE and NOSSRANGE?

825


What is downtime and what might be the reason?

555


Explain about base register?

609


Explain the difference between tsq and tdq

603


What is nvl in db2?

630