MainFrame Interview Questions
Questions Answers Views Company eMail

What is auditing?

2 4118

Lot of updates have been done on a table due to which indexes have gone haywire. What do you do?

2 4231

When do you specify the isolation level? How?

1 4294

What do the initials DDL and DML stand for and what is their meaning?

2 4410

What is the error code -803 ?

3 10503

What can the SET option of the Repair Utility accomplish?

1 4769

What are the levels of isolation available with DB2V4

IBM,

2 3733

Where are plans stored?

2 6179

What is a clustering index?

2 4504

What is a Resource Control Table(RCT)? Describe its characteristics.

3 12053

How is the SUBSTR keyword used in sql?

1 8541

What is an inner join, and an outer join ?

CTA,

1 12125

Where is the access path logic created by the DB2 Optimizer stored?

1 7622

What is a root page?

1 3672

What happens to the PLAN if index used by it is dropped?

1 4973


Un-Answered Questions { MainFrame }

How joinkeys helps in sort?

563


what does check opcode do ?

1069


Mainframes gets a text file that contains the name of the file. Now using JCL i want to locate that file name in the mainframe system and perform further processing. Please tell how to proceed

1974


What does it mean by Restart and Checkpoint in JCL ? How are checkpoints being taken and what is their usage ? How to use Checkpoint macro on a JOBSTEP ?

9222


How many bytes will a s9(8) comp field occupy ?

679






What do you mean by cursor?

586


what are all the contents of subfile?

995


Why we sometimes use same file name in file and tofile in ovrdbf and sometimes different?

662


What is the function of dd disp parameter?

658


how you will know whether you are in sfldrop or sflfold mode?

631


what is the difference between a return with transid and xctl? For example program. A is issuing return with transid to program b. Program a. Is isssuing xctl to program b?

679


What is distributed relational database architecture? And components?

555


How to create backup table in db2?

644


Which is the difference between delimited by size and delimited by space?

598


How to compare two files in SYNCSORT and on the mismatch record should be deleted from second file.

5064