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IBM MainFrame Interview Questions

Questions Answers Views Company eMail

what is mainframe? what is the mainframe software ? what is use in s/w field?

CSE,

7 12532

what is the basic concept of mainframe? what knowledge is needed for learn this mainframe?

CSE, TCS, Wipro,

4 17063

db2 query I have one table with the following details. SNO SNAME DOJ ------ -------------------- ---------- 10 KRISH 2007-03-19 20 REDDY 2007-05-19 30 RRRRR 2007-05-19 40 BBBBB 2008-05-19 50 CCCCC 2009-05-19 60 JJJJJ 2009-05-19 70 JJJJJ 2004-05-19 i want the output in the following format:( no of students joined in each year(no nedd to consider about month and date) year count --------- ---------- 2004 1 2007 3 2008 1 2009 2

TCS,

9 14331

what will be the output of the below given query, if no matching records are found : (a.) 0 (b.) null (c.) error select Avg(salary) from TableA where Deptno = 'insurance'

Amdocs,

10 16447

How we copy a program from production region to development region.What is the process & syntax ?

CTS,

3 13693

Explain complete concept of table handling in COBOL with an example?

IBM, TCS, Wipro,

2 18842

How to test thru JCL if any file(PS or VSAM) is empty or not. I do not want to use any COBOL prog or Ezytrieve and want to do using utility.

Lehman Brothers,

10 40888

how many bytes do SPPPP999 will store?

18 23932

what is partial serch analysys in cics?

2 5586

what is check pending option

Fujitsu,

1 6308

if we are specifing joblib as well as steplib in job then at the time of execution how the process will complete

4 9311

can we use variable picture clause as xx.99 in cobol.

3 10096

Suppose there r total 10 steps. Out of which i want to execute only the 7th step. How can i do that....????

3 9146

Suppose there r 10 steps . Out fo which i want to execute 10th, 9th and 8th in reverse order without using IEBEDIT. How can i do that..???

IBM, UST,

5 17161

how will be submit 1 jcl by other jcl? means that how 'll submit one job by other job??

Steria,

3 21180

Un-Answered Questions { IBM MainFrame }

Brief description of inline procedure of jcl.

1262

What is bind package and plan in db2?

1062

What is meant by an isolation level?

1028

can any body give me any website for getting help on mainframe projectts in banking domain.

2110

Tandem COBOL Interview questions (on TACL,SCOBOL,ENSCRIBE,PATHWAY0

23646

Can you define temporary storage?

1140

How do you define a variable of comp-1 and comp-2?

1210

what are the codes returned by the ams (access method services) command during the execution in vsam?

1300

What is schema in db2?

1027

Name the various locking levels available?

1101

How to code the db2 queries using rexx, and also plz send some link and examples using db2 queries?

930

How will you return the number of records in table?

945

What is a buffer in memory?

1068

What is coalesce in db2?

1143

What is the difference between structured cobol programming and object alternativelyiented cobol?

1256

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