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

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MainFrame Interview Questions

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what is pupose and meaning of the REGION keyword and what jcl statement is it associated with?

1 5830

what is the difference between static call and dynamic call?

1 22468

can we bowse or edit the GDG dataset if it is a tape entry?

4 9931

what is the purpose of SYSOUT parameter in the DD statement?

1 10269

what is a MODELDSCB?

1 4665

pls send the docs of any telecommunication mainframe project

Accent,

2168

Hi all, I have >200 members per Dataset, I need to delete 2 lines from all members of a Dataset. To do Manually it is difficult. So please tell me simple method. is there any Tool or........

2 4947

1.How can you search an entire source file for a particular field name? 2.How can you find the differences between two versions of the source for the same program? 3.What is a hidden field as it relates to a sub file? 4.How do you display a sub file that has no records in the sub file?

HCL,

8 15234

i want to see the jobs in skeleton queue in diff region. (eg. 7 regions are running means , i want to see all the jobs in 7 regions which are in skel queue using 1 command)

1 4740

How to position the cursor on a display file at a desired location.

Four soft,

5 19391

Why do you use Keep and Assume Keywords.

Four soft,

2 15765

What is normalisation?

IBM,

2 6884

I have 10 steps, I want to run STEP1 TO STEP4 then I should not run STEP5 and STEP6. Aganin I want to execute from STEP7 to STEP10. ONLY using CONDITION CODES how can we execute this process? 1. Where we can set cond codes for STEP5 and STEP6? 2. How can we execute remaining steps from STEP7 to STEP10?

2 9284

How we can update data area in cobol 400 program?

Accenture,

12 40204

What will happen if we write two STOP RUN's in a COBOL program?

Satyam,

4 12727

Un-Answered Questions { MainFrame }

What is a page in db2?

1027

What is program status data structure(psds) in as400?

1085

What is batch dl/i mode?

3348

Is it possible using max on a char column?

1140

System Testing for Mainframe Developers What is System Testing? integration testing ? what's the procedure ..

2078

What is meant by PPT and what are its uses?

1106

How to change size of Initial number of records to *NOMAX for ALL PF files from perticular library, how can I do that

3234

Name the sections present in data division.

1247

What are the bind parameters ibm db2?

1053

How to Provide Column Names Using the DRAW Command ?

1535

Define declaration generator (dclgen).

1116

Write a program to enter and display the names of students in a class using the occurs clause.

1208

Explain identify whether a call statement is a static or dynamic call?

1006

) How do u handle errors in BMS macro?

1970

How would you understand error(execution phase)?

1252

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