IBM MainFrame Interview Questions
Questions Answers Views Company eMail

What is the use of DSECT parameter in BMS?

IBM, Xansa,

2 18521

Which CICS system program is responsible for handling automatic task initialization?

IBM,

2 7115

Native Mode Data Stream (NMDS) is a mixture of Buffer Control Characters(BCC) and text data (True or False)

2 7226

What is the difference between CICS Program Control Table (PCT) and CICS Processing Program Table (PPT) ?

IBM,

4 19851

What is the command which will delete a program LOADed into the main storage using LOAD command?

2 6838

How do you place the cursor on a particular position on the screen?

IBM,

1 5827

How will you place cursor on a field called ?EMPNO?.

2 5518

Why doesn?t CICS use the Cobol Open and Close statements ?

2 7909

Reading a record from a TSQ will logically delete the record from the Queue (True or False).

1 6332

What are the three ways available for a program to position the cursor on the screen?

IBM,

2 4712

What is the option that is used to erase all unprotected fields during a SEND MAP operation?

Kanbay,

5 13878

A CICS program ABENDS with an ASRA ABEND code. What is its meaning?

IBM,

3 24984

What CICS command do you need to obtain the user logon-id?

IBM,

1 4805

what are the differences between DFHCOMMAREA and TSQ ?

IBM,

3 14220

When an XCTL is done, does the tranid change ? Is a new task created ? Does it cause an implicit

3 10447


Un-Answered Questions { IBM MainFrame }

What is cursor with hold option in db2?

606


Explain about dbrm.

603


How many types of evaluate statements are available?

550


What are db2 objects?

633


Explain about house keeping in assembler?

632






How can we see the copy book length using file-aid?

545


What is eib?

641


What are the prerogatives?

612


Mention the various locks that are available in db2.

613


the dfhcommara is used to pass information from one application to another. What are some other ways that this function can be accomplished?

658


What is db2 and what is the use of db2 optimizer?

648


Explain is it possible to code goto statement in natural? If yes please provide the syntax of the same?

592


what are the statements that are not valid to be included in an include statement?

776


What is CICS ?

590


what are the additional information you should give in the dd statement while defining the next generation of a gdg?

575