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

COBOL (1072)
JCL (1031)
CICS (755)
DB2 (1122)

IMS (143)
IDMS (107)
Natural (81)
ADABAS (26)

REXX (60)
Assembler (68)
CLIST (6)
QMF (32)

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

IBM MainFrame Interview Questions

Questions Answers Views Company eMail

What?s the CICS command used to access current date and time?

1 9137

When you do a START, what will the value of EIBCALEN?

IBM, Satyam, Xansa,

2 13095

What is the COMMAREA(communications area)?

IBM,

1 6805

How can you accomplish breakpoint in intertest?

IBM,

2 6719

What are the CICS commands associated with transient data queue processing?

1 6282

What is meant by program reentrance?

Amdocs,

1 7261

TSQs can be written in the Main storage or Auxiliary storage (True or False).

IBM,

1 5145

What is the primary function of the Sign-on Table?

1 5369

What is the CICS command that is used to copy a screen image of a terminal into another terminal?

IBM,

1 5923

How to establish dynamic cursor position on a map? How to get the cursor position when we receive a map?

IBM,

2 9781

What is an ASRA?

IBM,

2 7629

What are different ways of initiating transaction in CICS ?

Cap Gemini, IBM,

3 28549

What is the command that is used to add a new record to the file?

1 5429

What is a cursor in CICS sql processing?

IBM,

1 5867

Can you issue SQL COMMIT from a CICS program?

IBM,

2 12903

Un-Answered Questions { IBM MainFrame }

What are the rules of the move verb?

1274

name the utility program closely associated with vsam?

1059

Define cobol?

1414

What are the full forms of spufi and dclgen and why are they used?

1094

Define exec cics retrieve?

1188

What does db2 plan contain?

1031

How to resolve deadlock issue

20158

What is the function of the dd avgrec keyword in sms datasets?

1346

What is meant by union and union all?

1014

How to pass the parameters from jcl to assembler program?

1006

can any one plzzzzzz tell the jcl code for creating ps using idcams

11676

IIN APITUDE THEY GAVE ONLY 10 QUESTIONS.. THEY ARE SIMPLE ONE FROM NUMBER SERIES,BOATS,TIME & DISTANCE,PROFIT &LOSS,FIND OUT THE NUMBER ? 9 25 4 36 81 64 49 AND surveillance SPELLINGS E.T.C

2189

explain in brief why do vsam take more disk space than other utilities?

1104

Mention the types of job control statements?

1177

Can anybody tell what is tool used to generate the list of PROCS used in JCL to generate a PROCTREE

2460

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