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

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IBM MainFrame Interview Questions

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Hi All, Any idea about AFOper? What i know is that, its an third party monitoring tool for Started Tasks. Any more info..plz update me. Thanks

ACS,

1 6678

How can i execute 5th step without executing first 4 steps?

4 9895

I got user abend U4038 while compiling my runjcl.. can anyone help me?

CGI,

10 55046

i declare a Table as OCCURS 2000 TIMES.If the input file has more than 2000 records will the COBOL program fail?

12 18624

How to use the same cobol program in Batch and CICS onlines ? Please expalin with an example. Thanks in advance.

1 7462

In CICS/VSAM every file that is accessed should be defined in FCT. we have CICS READ, WRITE, BROWSE commands for VSAM files. How does it work with DB2 tables. It know it has to do with the plan. Please expain with examples.

1 4685

i know the stpes 2 create an executable CICS/DB2 cobol code. 1. DB2 Precompiler converts the SQL Statements into COBOL API statements and creates another member with Acess plans. CodeA results in CodeB (code with API calls) & CodeC ( Access Plans ) 2.Code B is compiled/linked 2 create an exceutable.(codeE) 3.Now CodeC is binded to the database on which CodeE will be run. Can somebody provide me the sample JCLs for precompile/compile/link/bind.

2402

How Plan is created while executing the query using SPUFI?

3 8651

what is active directory How to install active directory 2003?

1 3858

what are the options in file-aid to edit vsam dataset and to compare data sets.

Ocwen,

2 11023

how can we pass external data to instream procedures

IBM, Infosys, Ocwen,

5 13731

what is the certification that has a good value for a practioner in mainframes but not habving much knowledge on db2 related stuff?

2 4836

What is difference between Return Code, user completion code, Abend code and reason Code?

IBM, Satyam, Wipro,

2 14660

When you are working with the project after coding what will u do? Like what type of documents u will prepare? How will u do testing?

2 5068

Generally if I want to select the names starting with c I need to use c% But how could I code to select the data which contains % as a part of data.

5 7992

Un-Answered Questions { IBM MainFrame }

Matching Logic in Jcl not in cobol.Could any one please answer this question

4161

what are the six different type of argument values in cobol that can be placed in various options of a cics command?

1289

Can you explain dfheiblk?

1101

What is a plan and package in db2?

1110

I have to write to a outfile where the number of records in that file should be the header of that file using IMS.. can anyone help me in this issue

2561

Using alternate indexes in cics program?

1024

What is the use of the program list table?

1090

What is dbrm library?

1077

Name the various types of tables spaces.

1105

Explain the processing modes available in ims db?

3639

What is meant by an AICA ABEND?

1191

how to run batch program without jcl?

11570

how many buffers are allocated to vsam ksds and esds?

1170

how to do automated restart when a job abends?

1386

How is next sentence and continue different?

990

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