IBM MainFrame Interview Questions
Questions Answers Views Company eMail

What is the improvement to COND= in the latest version of MVS?

3 6355

What is the purpose of the PARM keyword in the EXEC statement?

3 8133

What is the purpose and meaning of the REGION keyword and what JCL statement is it associated with?

IBM,

3 26695

What is the purpose and meaning of the TIME keyword and what JCL statement is it associated with?

1 5001

What is the meaning of data definition name (ddname) and dataset name (dsname) in the DD statement?

2 8211

How is the keyword DUMMY used in JCL?

4 11285

What does the keyword DCB mean and what are some of the keywords associated with it?

ITC Infotech,

3 8196

What is the difference between BLKSIZE and LRECL?

3 15680

Can you execute a PROC from another PROC?

Keane India Ltd,

8 25868

What will happen if you attempt to restart a job in the middle of a JCL // IF .... // ENDIF?

4 9140

How many positional parameters are there in job statement?

4 14332

What are three parameters you can specify on Job statement as well as on exec stmt ?

1 6395

How can you trap abends in the JCL?

3 14384

How do you restart a step in JCL?

HSBC,

12 90748

How do you pass parameters to the program as the job is being executed ?

2 6090


Un-Answered Questions { IBM MainFrame }

What are union and union all?

541


Explain how are you going to remove duplicates from the file that is being read?

553


Explain difference between read(1) and read work file once?

557


What is report-item in COBOL?

711


Name the lockable units in DB2?

665






Explain eib?

528


What is the need of a secondary index in IMS?

664


How to get the last record in vsam file in cluster? And how can you get the ksds file records into cobol program?

710


What is the physical storage length of time data type?

673


Explain package in db2 and its advantages?

598


How to Get Information About the Tables?

1180


Can you define mapset?

605


Explain the difference between getting the system time with eibtime and asktime command?

565


Can an individual step be restricted from using all the jobs allowed cpu time?

1009


What are the cics commands associated with task control?

534