IBM MainFrame Interview Questions, Answers for Freshers and Experienced asked in various Company Job Interviews

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IMS (143)
IDMS (107)
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REXX (60)
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CLIST (6)
QMF (32)

MVS (25)
OS390 (10)
OS 2 (7)
VSAM (319)

IBM MainFrame Interview Questions

Questions Answers Views Company eMail

One program calling 5 subprograms, its a cobol db2 program, after precompilation how many plans and packages will created?

3 18517

Is there any other debugging tool for expeditor?

2 10885

can u run online and batch at the same time?

IBM,

4 10611

How to rename one vsam file as well as it's index?

BEA,

4 27106

How to rename a VSAM file as well as it's index file?

CitiGroup,

4 20620

What it does If we specify TYPRUN=P & it is not substituted by SCAN 0r HOLD in VALUE SET.

11878

Why do we have multiple base registers in certain programs?

IBM,

4 13815

what is amp?

3 9848

Can we use COND=EVEN on a job card, when jobs are scheduled through scheduler?

L&T,

1 6534

Can we use COND=EVEN on a job card, when jobs are scheduled through scheduler?

L&T,

5 13465

how to resolve the file status 47.......

MMM,

1 20246

how to transfer the file from pc to mainframe??

4 9128

how to see the last records in vsam dataset??

1 8098

how to transfer the file from pc to mainframe??

2 19303

how to transfer the file from pc to mainframe??

TCS,

5 15914

Un-Answered Questions { IBM MainFrame }

Define the necessity of run stats among the environment test?

995

What are the parameter we cannot use in procedure? How many instream we can write in single jcl?

1086

How can tablespace be moved to another dasd volume that is allocated for that tablespace?

1245

Explain the difference between cics program control table (pct) and cics processing program table (ppt)?

1073

Differentiate between cs and rr isolation levels? Where do you specify them?

1076

What is Cataloged Procedures?

1174

How can a jobs execution priority be modified?

1302

Is their any limit for data sets?

1194

there are seven idcams commands in vsam. Can you name and explain each of them?

1115

How do I import data from excel to db2?

1078

How to find the number of rows in db2 tables?

1075

How to check table size in db2 sap?

1048

How to change size of Initial number of records to *NOMAX for ALL PF files from perticular library, how can I do that

3234

What is a junction record?

1352

Define a page in idms?

835

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