IBM MainFrame Interview Questions
Questions Answers Views Company eMail

Name some of the JCL statements that are not allowed in procs.?

1 14228

What is primary allocation for a dataset?

4 12939

What is the difference between primary and secondary allocations for a dataset?

8 44932

How many extents are possible for a sequential file ? For a VSAM file ?

3 16839

What does a disposition of (NEW,CATLG,DELETE) mean?

3 17553

What does a disposition of (NEW,CATLG,KEEP) mean?

Cap Gemini,

1 12157

How do you access a file that had a disposition of KEEP?

3 17441

MOD, DELETE; What does a disposition of (,DELETE) mean ?

3 10665

What is the DD statement for a output file?

3 8616

What do you do if you do not want to keep all the space allocated to a dataset?

2 5910

What is DISP= (NEW,PASS,DELETE)?

HCL,

3 30163

How do you create a temporary dataset? Where will you use them?

IBM,

2 21244

How do you restart a PROC from a particular step?

5 40844

How do you skip a particular step in a proc/JOB?

CSC, CTS,

5 28541

A PROC has five steps. Step 3 has a condition code. How can you override/nullify this condition code?

IBM, Wipro,

5 36828


Un-Answered Questions { IBM MainFrame }

What is meant by union and union all?

570


How can we retrieve the total number of records in RPG & CLLE?

180


how to convert the recors form vsam file to db2 table tru file aid

2740


Why block size is multiple of lrecl in jcl?

896


What is node in db2?

598






Give the format of using and giving in sort statement. What are the restrictions with it?

615


We can allocate memory dynamically by using GET MAIN command my question is at what scenario we can't release this memory and reuse this same memory??

2704


How many sections are there in data division in COBOL?

665


What is the cobol picture clause of the db2 data types date, time, timestamp?

599


how JCL works?

781


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

3113


Explain how do you control cursor positioning?

550


Can you explain primary aspect of cics?

672


Define base cluster?

552


What are the full forms of spufi and dclgen and why are they used?

642