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IBM MainFrame Interview Questions

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A Table feild is declared as Decimal(7,2). I want to insert the decimal in to this column thru cobol-db2 program. How should I declare my local input file variable or any suggestion?

IBM,

7 19211

Can we copy a sequential file to a VSAM file ? If yes, What will happen of the size of the sequential file is bigger than that of the VSAM file?

CTS, Verizon,

3 36920

What does this mean ? GRANT BIND,EXECUTE ON PLAN MK2 TO PUBLIC;

Accenture,

4 20445

1. delete is not possible in esds. why? 2. i have 10 records in a esds file and i want to delete only 1st record ..then what i have to do?.. it will not affect any sequence of the RBA. 3. why open extend is not possible in rrds vsam file?

3 19397

if not using the 'commit' when closing VSAM file,what will happend

CSC,

5 13451

what happend with out using Commit,when closing cursor and program?

CSC,

5 15057

If job is submitted with typerun = hold then how can we submit the same job?

Wipro,

3 14949

THERE IS ONE STEP AS BELOW: //STEPJS060 EXEC PGM=XYX, COND=((200,EQ,JS010),(0,NE,JS020.C),EVEN) COULD ANY ONE EXPLAIN HOW COND PARAMETER WORKS HERE? I AM CONFUSED BECOZ OF "EVEN".

2 8145

There are 5 steps in a Job. How to bypass the first step by making use of only COND Parameter and not using any Restart and IF/THEN/ELSE parameter?

IBM,

11 31742

How many module come in Ibm framework?

IBM,

1999

What is Framework & How it work?

IBM,

2134

Why banking use IBM framework?

IBM,

1 5942

What is use of IBM framework?

IBM,

2125

How IBM framework work?

IBM,

2244

Tell me abt any another framework which is challening for Ibm framework

IBM,

2109

Un-Answered Questions { IBM MainFrame }

what are s0c1, s0c4, s0c5, s0c7 abends?

1312

for which platforms is uni-rexx available?

993

What are the types of important programs that are used in the cics?

1044

Can you explain enq and deq used in cics?

1084

Explain the function of the dd dcb keyword?

1261

How do define dynamic array in cobol. how do you define single dimensional array and multidimensional array in your cobol?

1255

suppose oza017.myorg.emp has 100 records ,oza018.myorg.staff has 200 records but 50 are the common records in both files copy all the common records into oza017.myorg.xyz dataset?

1011

What is auto status?

1656

What are the pertinent COBOL commands?

3186

What is the maximum size of varchar data type in db2?

1139

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??

3256

Can you delete vsam files with the delete option of the disposition parameter of jcl?

1116

How to execute stored procedures?

1136

Is it possible to left uncode disp?

1214

by using cond parameter maximum 8 cond can be coded in single cond means ?explain

1474

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