MainFrame Interview Questions
Questions Answers Views Company eMail

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

3 6358

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

3 8136

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

IBM,

3 26703

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

1 5004

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

2 8218

How is the keyword DUMMY used in JCL?

4 11285

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

ITC Infotech,

3 8200

What is the difference between BLKSIZE and LRECL?

3 15680

Can you execute a PROC from another PROC?

Keane India Ltd,

8 25873

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

4 9146

How many positional parameters are there in job statement?

4 14332

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

1 6397

How can you trap abends in the JCL?

3 14390

How do you restart a step in JCL?

HSBC,

12 90768

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

2 6096


Un-Answered Questions { MainFrame }

what is effect on receive map when

678


DB2 can implement a join in three ways using a merge join, a nested join or a hybrid join. Explain the differences?

2282


Is therE anybody who knows about TICKLER FILE of RM.??thank you

1547


Can I cleanly uninstall oorexx?

582


Name a few CICS programs which are generally used ?

637






How to read a pf in reverse(from last record to first) using cl?

605


What is basic difference between directory and pds in ibm mainframe?

678


How to remove the spaces at end of each record in the output file Via COBOL program? note: The file has a VB length ----TRY

862


What is node in db2?

610


What is afoper?

489


What is the interactive job? What is the batch job? How to change the batch job to interactive job?

631


What statement marks the beginning of an in-stream or cataloged procedure in jcl and assigns default values to parameters defined in the procedure?

819


What is the maximum number of subfiles that can be specified in a display file?

1149


How to find occurrence of mu and pe fields in a file?

489


What do you understand by the term notcat 2 – gs?

759