IBM MainFrame Interview Questions
Questions Answers Views Company eMail

DLI Vs BMP

CTS, IBM,

13 57059

Static & Dynamic PSB

IBM,

2 10287

The first VSAM file V1 has 2 fields A and B . There is a DB2 file which has fields E and f. We need the fields A, B , E and F to another VSAM file called V2. Kindly mention the logic in procedure division in cobol..

Cap Gemini,

2 7878

What all are the changes to be made in JCL so as to do testing?

TCS,

2 7263

How is manual testing done in MF environment? what all are the steps to follow?

3 7298

which generation language is cobol

Kanbay,

4 9518

can we use full outer join with cursors declared in cobol program?

2 8050

hi is there any means of deletin a record from a ps usin cobol not using jcl?eg if i am reading a record and if some condition is matched tat particular record must be deletd fom the ps

iNautix,

5 13875

hai friends ,i have HSBc exam on this sunday,my platform is Mainframe,i have 1 year exp,pls any one send me placement papers of Hsbc and technical questions on mainframe

Citi Bank, CitiGroup, HSBC, iNautix, Wipro,

6 21543

hello friends ,i have exam in Hsbc,pls any on send me placement papers and technical questions on mainframes,thank u

HF, iNautix,

1655

Do we have any optinon to search part of integer in DB2 as we have for character Like,SUBSTR optins?

1 8326

Can I concatenate various datasets whose organization are different from each other. Lets say I want to cancatenate a PDS file, a PS file, a GDG file etc. Can You do that ?? If yes, how ? is there any separate Utility to do so ???

4 11263

Can we delete the data using IEFBR14 , IEBGENER??

Kanbay,

5 30746

When we give TYPERUN = SCAN , what are the syntax errors we get?

Kanbay,

5 14459

What is maximum length of block size?

Cap Gemini, Kanbay, TCS,

5 21567


Un-Answered Questions { IBM MainFrame }

what is need of start 0? In steed of

669


Which is not true about evaluate statement

1560


How many bytes will a s9(8) comp field occupy ?

658


Explain eib?

514


How to run my rexx exec?

554






What is a base cluste?

597


If we say that bms length of field = 0, then what does that mean?

720


What are the 2 sqlcodes that are returned?

631


What is mainframe testing?

568


i tried to copy some records from microsoft excel to as-400 physical file through "Bosanova" emulation. Out of 14000 records only 12000 records copies and subsequently programe started to hang. Then, i closed the program forcefully. I did' under stand the problem. Also when i try to compile the physical file it is showing as "The file in use". How to overcome this problem?

2040


File1 has 100 records and file2 has 200 records I want to copy 50 records which are in both file into file3?

491


Explain how many exceptional condition can be given in a handle condition?

524


Is it possible to combine uni-rexx with a compiled language in any application? What applications interfaces are there?

537


What is a lds (linear data set)?

548


Why is free space left in ksds dataset?

592