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

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MainFrame Interview Questions

Questions Answers Views Company eMail

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

Steria,

3 21155

Can you tell recent requirement(s) you handled with your project? Requirements based on Banking Application.

ITC Infotech,

2 6739

what is dynamic array in cobol? what is the difference b/w array and table in cobol?

2 21468

When search all is used in cobol program without sorted input data?

CGI, Principal Finance,

6 14660

Can we create VSAM file by using IEBGENER?

Principal Finance,

4 12841

Can we use goto statement in inline_perform ?

IBM,

5 10508

Can we use select * statement in cobol program without giving field names ???

Zensar,

3 11751

what is the difference between occurs and occurs depending on? i dont think so there is the difference in storage..then why we should use occurs depending on?

TCS, Tech Mahindra,

9 30305

why we create view.

5 10162

I am tryin to select one records(SQL) using Rexx.Here is the code ADDRESS DSNREXX "EXECSQL FETCH C1 USING DESCRIPTOR :TBSQLDA" IF SQLCODE = 0 THEN DO LINE = '' DO I = 1 TO TBSQLDA.SQLD LINE = LINE TBSQLDA.I.SQLDATA END I SAY LINE END ADDRESS DSNREXX "EXECSQL CLOSE C1" ADDRESS DSNREXX 'DISCONNECT' i am getting the following errors and also i dont know wr to see the ouput.Can anyone please hlep me in solving this? 28 +++ ADDRESS DSNREXX 'DISCONNECT' Error running DB2REXX, line 28: Incomplete DO/SELECT/IF

Syntel,

2 11203

quary for 1> fetch last record 2> fetch in reverse order 3> fetch last 5 row 4> fetch second last record (their is no primary key) i think concept of count can be use for this in 4th

5 10565

can we use go to statement inline-perform?

IBM,

7 13173

When search all is used in cobol program without sorted input data

3 10539

Which is the DL/I function used in CICS-IMS program? IBM

IBM,

3 10530

1) Can we declare a Display file in CL? 2) How many no. of files can be declared in a CL? 3) What is Non-Join Logical file and its importance?

Cognizant,

4 24359

Un-Answered Questions { MainFrame }

What is the clustering index in the db2 database?

1001

in which specification the report layout can be defined?

1632

how will you search an array?

1099

What are the access method services used in vsam?

1036

hi.... anybody send real time project related questions & answers whatever will ask in interview plz.....help me? advanced thanks....

2489

in ways data can be passed to a COBOL program from JCL?

1223

what is db2 restart?

2162

what is the differences between getting the system time with eibtime and asktime command?

1136

Give a brief description of db2 isolation levels?

1074

what is an mdt (modified data tag)? Its menaing and use?

1142

Explain the difference between external subroutine and subprogram?

1225

how can I give more performance to some selected pages?

1034

When do you get -811 sqlcode and how to resolve it?

1006

Explain about LMFREE�free data set from its association with data ID

1632

Define a region in idms?

873

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