IBM MainFrame Interview Questions
Questions Answers Views Company eMail

What is the difference between TYPE 1 index & TYPE 2 index

IBM,

1 12471

What are the disadvantages of using VARCHAR?

3 14075

What is the purpose of the DSNC transaction ?

1 6706

What are delete-connected tables?

1 3552

What is the significance of the CURSOR WITH HOLD clause in a cursor declaration?

4 28530

What is a correlated sub query?

2 4509

What is read-only cursor?

1 5980

What Utility is used to migrate DB2 from one release to the next?

1 4885

What is Skeleton cursor table (SKCT)?

2 12712

Under what circumstances will DB2 allow an SQL statement to update more than one primary key value at a time?

1 5214

What is the database descriptor?

2 13040

What is the syntax required for the creation of a cursor?

1 8565

What is meant by AUTO COMMIT?

3 8862

What information is contained in a SYSCOPY entry?

2 8917

What is the COBOL picture clause for a DB2 column defined as DECIMAL(11,2)?

Emsang,

5 18762


Un-Answered Questions { IBM MainFrame }

Can you define path?

583


I HAVE A VB BLOCK WHICH IS USED AS INPUT IN COBOL CONATINING SOME RECORDS CAN I CHANGE THE FILE FROM VB TO FB?

2097


How long have you been working on mainframes?

565


What is the difference between a binary search and a sequential search? What are the pertinent cobol commands?

709


Name a few CICS programs which are generally used ?

635






Explain dfsort utility?

667


Where can program checkpoints be stored for use in a restart?

843


what do you mean by a shareoptions parameter (shr) in define cluster command?

599


Highlight all the advantages that are attached to a package.

627


We can use PASS with permanent datasets also. THEN Which is the condition in which we may use PASS (instead of KEEP) with permanent data sets, while there is no need to specify UNIT and VOL for them like temporary data sets (in cas we use KEEP for permanent data sets) ?

1748


What is an instance database?

598


In COBOL programming, what is PERFORM? What is VARYING?

668


what are the codes returned by the ams (access method services) command during the execution in vsam?

765


List the different jcl statements that are not permitted in the procedures?

636


Suppose I want to code a rexx program in order to get the inputfile and output files of jcl. I want code snippet or the coding for this?

526