IBM AS400 Interview Questions, Answers for Freshers and Experienced asked in various Company Job Interviews

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IBM AS400 Interview Questions

Questions Answers Views Company eMail

difference between CHAIN and READE?

8 46968

Hello friends, i am new to AS/400. Can any one help me in AS/400 i meant say can you send me some FAQS and interview questions.

HanceInc, IBM,

7 19275

What is the benefit of using Externally Described files over Internally Described?

IBM, Patni,

19 40978

What is the difference between a Physical File & a Logical?

Accenture, ACS, IBM,

28 111356

What is SDA used for?

7 16037

What are Triggers?

Ordain Solutions, Seabus Solutions,

14 31100

Where would you use Override Data Base File?

4 17603

What controls which printer a report goes to?

Wipro,

4 13635

What are the values of NUM1 and NUM2 after executing the following code? CLONO1NO2NO3 Factorl÷÷+OpcdeFactor2+÷+ResultLenDHHiLoEq C MOVE *LOVAL NUM1 50 C MOVE *J-fIVAL NtJM2 52

Fiserv, IBM,

2 12557

1. Which Built-In-Function will you use to achieve the following functionality? CLONO1NO2NO3 Factorl÷÷+OpcdeFactor2++÷ResultLenDHHiLoEq C QTY IFLT *ZERO C QTY MULT -1 QTY C ENDIF a) %ABS b) %TRIM c) %TRIMS d) %UNS

IBM,

3 12392

What is the significance of UDATE?

IBM,

5 23177

A particular job executing on the iS is not behaving as expected and is operating in an environment in which it can be debugged. What commands would you use to debug and observe the program?

IBM,

2 14862

What is the compilation option that has to he specified while compiling an RPC program which uses a file having date data type field?

HSBC, IBM,

3 16544

2. Which of the following statement(s) explains the difference(s) between the /INCLUDE and ICOPY directives? a.) No difference, they function the same b.) ACOPY cannot be used as a conditional directive c.) IINCLUDE files cannot contain embedded SQL d.) Nesting /TNCLUDE directives is not allowed

IBM,

2 11184

3. Given the DOS Specification below and the following information: • Indicator 50 is off • No records have been written to the subfile What will be the result if the EXFMT operation code is performed on the record format CTLR? A R SUBFL A DESCRIP 101 6 1ODSPATR(UL) A DFT(’NOT FOUND’) A R CTLR SFLCTL(SUBFL) A N50 SFLDSP A SFLDSPCTL A SFLINZ A 67 SFIJEND A SFLSIZ(13) A SFLPAG(12) A ACCOUNTNO 100 S 10 a.) Only AccountNo will display b.) SUBFL will be initialized with 13 blank records c.) An I/O exception error will occur d.) The screen will display 12 records with ‘NOT FOUND’

IBM,

4 12697

Un-Answered Questions { IBM AS400 }

in conjunction with what other keyword must ovrdta and ovrata be used?

1562

Define redefine?

1131

can a join logical file be updated?

1030

What is the as400 called now?

990

What is the syntax of redefine?

957

Hi Viewers can any body explain me how to update and ahange the already existed data in physical file using subfile ? please explain me with the code if possible?

5150

How to debug a batch job when it is in messagewait(mswg) status. I know the steps for batch ebugging, but im confusing with when we submit any job for batch debug we put in held state. So here also do same thing or any other way?

1281

what is overlay?

1139

how many maximum spaces could be given in o specs?

1093

how many levels are there in a physical file?

1803

which indicator is used for read?

1145

http default port 80 is used by some other production http service. How can I create an http instance on another port to run cgidev2 and my future cgi developments?

1114

Why we are not able to perform insert delete and update operation in Join logical file?

1473

define subsystem?

1639

during input operation which indicator position is seton if there is a record lock?

1606

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