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MainFrame Interview Questions

Questions Answers Views Company eMail

When can the USING phrase be included in the call statement ?

2 6753

What does the initialize statement do ?

2 7227

What are the two search techniques ?

iGate,

2 10031

Can you access ESDS files from CICS ?

IBM,

2 13770

What is the function of the Terminal Control table?

4 10568

How do you access storage outside your CICS program?

IBM,

2 8964

What is the primary objective of CICS ?

IBM,

1 7185

What do the keywords MAPONLY and DATAONLY mean?

2 9358

What is ENQ, DEQ ?

IBM,

1 14100

What is the name of the facility provided by CICS to free the application program form the problems caused

1 5792

What is the function of the CICS translator?

1 13782

Which is the macro used for making an entry in the PPT

1 6645

What are the situations under which NEWCOPY is required ?

Cap Gemini, IBM,

2 15700

What is the difference between a PF key & a PA key ?

IBM,

4 20874

Can you define multiple maps in a BMS mapset?

Cap Gemini, IBM,

3 10369

Un-Answered Questions { MainFrame }

Write a cobol program making use of the redefine clause.

1166

how do you round the addition or subtraction of two numbers in assembler? what does the following code do? change process tool(code changes from dev to prd) the changes made to your code should be effected in live. How the process takes place. That is how can you move the code changes from development to production?

1117

What does db2 blu stand for?

1161

What information does a dbd contain?

1023

which is the cics control program that provides communication services between user written application programs and terminals?

991

when an apllication is invoked via the exec cics start command with the from option, how does the application gain access to the common area?

1070

when a task suspends all the handle conditions via the push command, how does the task reactivate all the handle conditions?

1166

what do you mean by a shareoptions parameter (shr) in define cluster command?

1296

define a shared access path?

1747

what is utility for parm lib

2367

Where is the vsam ksds placed?

961

How to List the Available Tables?

1684

we can define the ksds cluster by two ways by using the file-aid or by using the idcams utility. Explain them.

1317

How does jcl act on a cobol code?

1177

What is the difference between binary search and sequential search?

1084

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