IBM MainFrame Interview Questions
Questions Answers Views Company eMail

What are the kinds of job control statements?

3 6750

What is the meaning of keyword in JCL? What is its opposite?

1 6604

Describe the JOB statement, its meaning, syntax and significant keywords?

1 4214

Describe the EXEC statement, its meaning, syntax and keywords?

2 4820

Describe the DD statement, its meaning, syntax and keywords?

2 8108

What is a PROC? What is the difference between an instream and a catalogued PROC?

2 11091

What is the difference between a symbolic and an override in executing a PROC?

2 12360

What is RESTART? How is it invoked?

HSBC,

8 21087

What is a GDG? How is it referenced? How is it defined? What is a MODELDSCB?

3 8026

Explain concatenating datasets?

CTS,

2 8691

What is the difference between specifying DISP=OLD and DISP=SHR for a dataset?

2 7924

What is MOD and when would you use it?

3 6133

What are the keywords associated with DCB? How can you specify DCB information? What is the OS precedence for obtaining that DCB information, ie. where does the system look for it first?

2 7753

How do you designate a comment in JCL?

1 8700

What is the meaning of the EXEC statement keyword, COND? What is its syntax?

2 5026


Un-Answered Questions { IBM MainFrame }

what are JCLLIB and STEPLIB in JCL?

670


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

720


Explain how many conditions can you include in a single handle condition command?

607


When would you use abend command?

582


What is the difference between run mode and addressing mode?

631






Explain how can you do the explain of a dynamic sql statement?

649


how can the same proc be re-used and called by many jobs?

903


What is reorg?

616


What is host variable in db2 cobol?

596


what are the secirity tools in mainframe? and let me know about the other tools and the uses of thst immediatly................

1999


Explain the difference between local and central version operating modes?

474


What parameters can be used to limit the number of records written to a sysout dataset?

743


which transient data queue support ati?

687


Define concatenating?

663


What is host variable?

590