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MainFrame Interview Questions

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What is a procedure?

1 4986

Can we browse or edit the GDG dataset if it is a tape entry?

4 17318

What happens if both JOBLIB and STEPLIB is specified ?

8 16162

What is order of searching of the libraries in a JCL?

4 11704

What is the difference between static call & Dynamic call ?

3 14349

What are the maximum and minimum sizes of any CONTROL AREA (VSAM datasets) ?

Patni,

2 13278

How to get cursor position from system in CICS environment ?

8 40586

How many parameters are there to a DISP statement and what are their uses ?

3 7851

What is the difference between specifying DISP=OLD and DISP=SHR for a dataset?

CitiGroup,

5 33606

What does SYSIN * indicate?

2 8275

What u mean by include statement in JCL ?

3 29181

The maximum number of in-stream procedure you can code in any JCL is ?

5 15752

What is a COND parameter in JCL?

TCS,

10 64233

How many types of libraries are there in JCL ?

IBM,

2 11577

What you mean by skeleton JCl?

2 14880

Un-Answered Questions { MainFrame }

What are the cobol coding sheets?

1283

What is the utilization of copybook in cobol? Could we utilize a similar copybook?

1233

i was faced one question- i have value -00001234.56 Suppress the zeroes and the output should be -1234.56 But Not - 1234.56 spaces should not be available after suppressing the zeroes. logic in jcl and cobol?

1329

Describe the cobol database components?

1183

how can you detect overflow for a print program that prints multiple lines per cycle?

1733

What is scrollable cursor in db2?

1059

what is a rpg?

1203

Outputs of explain are with matchcols = 0. What does this signify?

1062

Explain cemt transaction commands?

1169

What is mpp mode?

1142

What is the utilization of copybook in cobol?

1199

can I redistribute oorexx freely with commercial software?

1049

Q:HI friends accually ihave one problem plesase let me know the alternate code of this code. Related field description of code: Add a field, CALvsPRD, "Calendar Day Starts Before/After Production Day" to the parameter set WRKORDER which accepts values 'A' or 'B' o B = Calendar Day Starts Before Production Day o A = Calendar Day Starts After Production Day o Any other value indicates the production and calendar dates are always the same. code: Automatic Execution Of *INZSR Subroutine /Z01 * retrieves WRKORDER field values. /Z01 * Calculate default Production Date and return it to caller. /Z01 * Production date defaults to system date /Z01 C Eval P@Pdate = %DATE() /Z01 * unless Calendar date starts Before PDN(production) date and /Z01 * system time is before PDN Start Time then /Z01 * PDN date is yesterday. /Z01 C If W@CALvsPRD = 'B' and /Z01 C %TIME() < %TIME (W@Strtime) /Z01 C Eval P@Pdate -= %Day(1) /Z01 * unless Calendar date starts After PDN date and /Z01 * system time is *GE PDN(production) Start Time then /Z01 * PDN date is tomorrow. /Z01 C ElseIf W@CALvsPRD = 'A' and W@Strtime > *Zero and /Z01 C %TIME() >= %TIME (W@STrtime) /Z01 C Eval P@Pdate += %Day(1) /Z01 C EndIf /Z01 C Eval *InLr = *On

2531

Which command is used to remove all rows from a table?

1119

what is the JCL statement consists of?

1193

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