IBM MainFrame Interview Questions
Questions Answers Views Company eMail

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

1 8126

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

IBM, Satyam, Xansa,

2 11808

What is the COMMAREA(communications area)?

IBM,

1 5598

How can you accomplish breakpoint in intertest?

IBM,

2 5640

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

1 5441

What is meant by program reentrance?

Amdocs,

1 6158

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

IBM,

1 4288

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

1 4027

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

IBM,

1 5017

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

IBM,

2 8757

What is an ASRA?

IBM,

2 6616

What are different ways of initiating transaction in CICS ?

Cap Gemini, IBM,

3 26708

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

1 4510

What is a cursor in CICS sql processing?

IBM,

1 5032

Can you issue SQL COMMIT from a CICS program?

IBM,

2 11615


Un-Answered Questions { IBM MainFrame }

mention the option used in the cics read command to gain accessibility directly to the file i/o area. (Assume cobol-ii).?

639


What is the difference between read(1) and read work file once?

570


Explain the benefits you can get from mainframe connect?

520


Is the primary key a clustered index?

609


What is reorg?

619






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

2276


what is db2 restart?

1691


Explain the two ways in which dl/i interface can be invoked?

3119


What does a deadlock mean in DB2?

651


What is a cics task?

575


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

2730


Explain the difference between lds and esds?

577


what does a file status of 02 on a vsam signifies?

627


What is the quality process in development?

569


How to check sequence on a table in db2?

600