IBM MainFrame Interview Questions
Questions Answers Views Company eMail

what's the biggest disadvantage of using a VSAM dataset?

Anjana, CTS, DSRC, IBM,

8 17586

what's the device independent method to indicate where a Record is Stored?

1 4926

How many times secondary space allocated?

5 9243

what is the RRN for the first record in RRDS?

2 11053

what is a Base Cluster?

HSBC, TCS,

3 9490

If FSPC(100 10 is specified does it mean that both the control interval and control area will be left empty because 100 % of both CI and ca are specified to be empty?

DSRC,

1 7549

What is a Generation Data Group (GDG)?

2 8983

How is a GDG base created?

5 24239

What is model dataset label(Model DSCB)?

1 22640

How are GDGs concatenated?

1 13425

How is a new GDG coded?

2 8911

When should DISP=MOD is used?

TCS,

6 44032

How is a dataset passed from one step to another?

DELL,

2 14410

How are datasets concatenated?

CitiGroup,

3 12414

What is the difference between the JOBLIB and the STEPLIB statements?

3 35908


Un-Answered Questions { IBM MainFrame }

What rules are to be followed while using the corresponding options?

629


Explain difference between read work file 1 and read work file once? Why we are using work file once?

556


Comment whether the cursor is closed during commit or not.

665


What dd statement is used to supply the name of a dataset?

772


Explain what is a cursor in cics sql processing?

587






What is a db2 schema?

760


what sort card you will use to copy the data from one dataset to another dataset?

721


What is a set in idms?

469


What are Naming Conventions in QMF?

1435


What are INPUT PROCEDURE and OUTPUT PROCEDURE?

679


What are the sub parameters for undo command?

558


what is the other verb for release and write ?

554


What is meant by drda?

527


What is the maximum number of columns in a db2 table?

716


Is db2 a programming language?

600