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MainFrame Interview Questions

Questions Answers Views Company eMail

What is the improvement to COND= in the latest version of MVS?

3 7690

What is the purpose of the PARM keyword in the EXEC statement?

3 9392

What is the purpose and meaning of the REGION keyword and what JCL statement is it associated with?

IBM,

3 28247

What is the purpose and meaning of the TIME keyword and what JCL statement is it associated with?

1 5869

What is the meaning of data definition name (ddname) and dataset name (dsname) in the DD statement?

2 9394

How is the keyword DUMMY used in JCL?

4 12699

What does the keyword DCB mean and what are some of the keywords associated with it?

ITC Infotech,

3 9642

What is the difference between BLKSIZE and LRECL?

3 17285

Can you execute a PROC from another PROC?

Keane India Ltd,

8 28566

What will happen if you attempt to restart a job in the middle of a JCL // IF .... // ENDIF?

4 10604

How many positional parameters are there in job statement?

4 16005

What are three parameters you can specify on Job statement as well as on exec stmt ?

1 7174

How can you trap abends in the JCL?

3 16105

How do you restart a step in JCL?

HSBC,

12 95174

How do you pass parameters to the program as the job is being executed ?

2 7169

Un-Answered Questions { MainFrame }

difference between view and index ?

1151

what is the use of unique keyword and what level it is defined?

1607

Can you use occurs in bms map?

1067

How do I copy a table in db2?

1006

i need a small 3d program using inline and outline.

2218

What is the difference between hdam and hidam databases?

1136

how to handle -911 (deadlock) error in a db2 program so that the program will never abend?

1040

1. If there are two programs using same file and 2 users are using the file at the same time and what can be done to allow them both to access? 2. How can remove lock from the file for accessing it by both users?

959

how do you reference the variable block file formats from cobol programs

1264

what is the meaning of ssrange and nossrange?

1011

What is the difference between general testing and mainframe testing?

1121

can you change the attribute in mapset? if so how?

2155

define the purpose/use for sflrna?

1667

What are literals?

1146

which parameter is use to declare the name of dataset in dd statement?

1273

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