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 21141

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

ITC Infotech,

2 6735

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

2 21441

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

CGI, Principal Finance,

6 14653

Can we create VSAM file by using IEBGENER?

Principal Finance,

4 12832

Can we use goto statement in inline_perform ?

IBM,

5 10483

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

Zensar,

3 11745

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 30272

why we create view.

5 10139

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 11193

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 10540

can we use go to statement inline-perform?

IBM,

7 13133

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

3 10528

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

IBM,

3 10511

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 24347

Un-Answered Questions { MainFrame }

What is the use of qsam?

816

Write in brief about clusters?

974

Why would you use find and get rather than to obtain?

1183

Explain various types of locks in db2?

1140

Explain associator in adabas?

856

Can you explain differences between temporary storage queue (tsq) and transient data queue (tdq)?

1078

What are Naming Conventions in QMF?

1819

how many files, printer files you can describe in a rpg?

1140

B37 abend during spufi?

1453

is it compulsory commitment control in journal?

2474

what is the use of IEBGENER utility?

1165

how do you specify the number of records to roll in a subfile ?

2161

what is swap-in and swap-out?

1095

What is the difference between ooRexx and IBM's Object REXX for Windows?

1081

What is rebind in db2?

1052

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