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MainFrame Interview Questions

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When you are working with the project.. once your coding is over what will u do? where u r maintaining your CR(change request) what is the format what are the documents u need to prepare while testing?

2002

How will u give input data to cobol program apart from PARM & Instream data?

6 15126

How to change the name of physical members Dynamically?

1 8112

Setps to create .csv file on IFS folder in AS/400( V4R3)....?

TCS,

3 13072

RENAME clause takes new SPACE in memory.TRUE or FALSE? a)TRUE 2)FALSE

TCS,

12 18942

level number 77 is used to define a)group data b)elementary data c)redefine d)none

TCS,

8 12318

Anyone help me for the below question:- If problem/error occur in *PSSR subroutine,how should I handel it in RPG program.

1 6554

Please help me, I have created window subfile,I have created Footer with same lengh and postion of window SFL. When I call the pgm, first is shows only Footer and then it shows subfile records.This time Footer is not showsing ..plz hel me how can i do it...? Sameple DDS and RPG: A R WIN1 SFL A*%%TS SD 20090130 165346 MUNSHIJ REL-V4R2M0 5769- PW1 A FLD001 1Y 0B 4 3EDTCDE (Z) A ATFILE R O 4 7REFFLD (QWHFDBAS/ATFILE LIB/LIBF- A ILE) A R WINCTL SFLCTL (WIN1) A*%%TS SD 20090202 123459 MUNSHIJ REL-V4R2M0 5769- PW1 A ALTNAME ('y') A SFLSIZ (0004) A SFLPAG (0004) A WINDOW (FOOTER) A ROLLUP (27) A ROLLDOWN (28) A CF12 (12 'Cancel') A 50 SFLDSP A N51 SFLDSPCTL A 51 SFLCLR A 1 2'Select Option,Press enter' A 2 3'1= Select' A R FOOTER A* A WINDOW(8 31 9 43) A 8 4'F12 = Cancel' A R DUMMY ASSUME A 24 10' ' in RPG: Dow *IN12 = *Off Write Footer Fxfmt WInCTL

2 9633

parameters cannot be passed in which one??

CTS,

2 5563

in which journalling which attributes are necessary

CTS,

2 7096

what is post opcode do

CTS,

1 11112

how do u find whether a record is locked or not??

CTS,

4 14110

3 members in databasefile .how to read records from all the members??

CTS,

6 14348

3 members in a databasefile .how to read records from all the members?????????

CTS,

4 9678

two attributes which govern the excecution of a job>>>>??

CTS,

2 7721

Un-Answered Questions { MainFrame }

there are seven idcams commands in vsam. Can you name and explain each of them?

1112

Differentiate between control interval (ci) and control area (ca)?

1008

what is the purpose of dynslt keyword?

1753

why should SYSIN DD * statement should not be included inside a PROCedure snippet??? please answer this.. i need to know.

2456

On which dataset you can have alt index?

917

What is the difference between comp and comp-3?

1185

How can a like table be created?

988

What is the use of with ur in db2?

1058

What is an area sweep?

890

Define check constraint.

1078

How to select highest score of each subject or how to select highest income of every month?

1765

for which platforms is uni-rexx available?

986

how can you execute a command from within an rpg program without calling a clp program?

2009

Give the format of using and giving in sort statement. What are the restrictions with it?

1038

What is house keeping in assembler?

1010

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