IBM MainFrame Interview Questions
Questions Answers Views Company eMail

Explain what a plan is?

CTS,

3 7443

What is a synonym ?

2 4659

What are the four lockable units for DB2?

1 5496

In a DB2-CICS program which is acts as co-ordinator and which is participant?

IBM,

1 4541

Describe what a storage group(STOGROUP) is?

2 9266

What is SPUFI?

4 15462

What is the difference between SYNONYM and ALIAS?

TCS,

6 26348

What is a data page?

1 3705

What is a subselect? Is it different from a nested select?

1 6716

When Can you be sure that a query will return only one row?

IBM,

4 7012

What is the SQL Communications Area and what are some of its key fields?

1 4592

How do you leave the cursor open after issuing a COMMIT? (for DB2 2.3 or above only)

2 8466

How many buffer pools are available in db2?

2 6185

What is the size of a data page?

IBM,

2 4820

What is the difference between CS and RR isolation levels?

1 7714


Un-Answered Questions { IBM MainFrame }

Explain how do you control cursor positioning?

556


What do you mean by linkage section?

551


Is mainframe an operating system?

493


What are the common vsam error conditions and codes?

586


How to create db2 table in mainframe?

625






Explain the system transid cemt?

584


which is the cics control program that provides communication services between user written application programs and terminals?

552


What is the function of //cntl statement?

824


is oorexx compatible with ibm object rexx?

617


What are the access modes of START statement?

706


What are the 4 fields in dd statement?

737


can we view the access paths created by dbrm ? how ? thx

6235


Differentiate cobol and cobol-ii. (Most of our programs are written in cobolii, so, it is good to know, how, this is different from cobol)?

619


How errors are handled in CICS programs?

635


How is a type of file defined in the jcl that executes the cobol program?

705