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

IBM MainFrame (5234)
IBM AS400 (1355)
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MainFrame Interview Questions

Questions Answers Views Company eMail

Can anybody tell me, does CL/400 handle LEVEL check while running the CL program....? plz share your experience...

4 18594

how we retrieve records without using key field (ex:name) from Physical File through RPG in as/400?

8 29544

Suppose you have 3 members in a database file. How to read records from all the members Without using CL (OVRDBF) i.e. it should be handled exclusively in an RPG program?

IBM,

6 16256

How to know the number of records in a pf through clp program?

Bank Of America,

7 32177

How can u create a temporary file in CLP @ how to access that temporary file in RPG program?

4 18195

Write the subfile logic program for the given concept. Load the data to the subfile depends upon the designation where designation is not a key field?

2 6170

Logic cycle

1 5142

What is left outer join?

2 9517

What is primary file? How many primary file can be declared in a RPG program?

IBM, Valtech,

3 17352

Write a logic program for knowing the repeated number of a vowels in a given program?

Valtech,

3704

Can anybody please tell me what is difference between SQL (STRSQL ) and WRKQRY .....?

3 20081

If JOBA is in MSGW due to data decimal error and DUMP is generated and I found that Decimal field formatted with some special char which is coming from Input file amd file has millions of records. How I can find out on which record the error is occur. Please share your experience.....

2108

Hi All, Can any one give me a suggestion for below prob One job is in MSGW due to decimal dara error and I find out stmt error and Value in DMUP. but my file has millions of records.So how can i find out on which record the error was occured....?

3 10825

Hi friends i have i question please reply me asap. what would be coding in DDS and programing part for this condition suppose that i have three fields in the display file(subfile)which has 7 record format. Condition is ''The supplier LOT, ISSUED TO PROD and LINE GRP fields in display file(Subfile) will not be shown if their respective fields are blank/zero in the record formats WIM311FM and Record format WIM311FM. I want coding part in DDS and Programing. Please reply me as soon as posible.

IBM,

1 4702

How I can read and display three fields in the record format DSPFM1 of the display file,while one field(using in one file) is NAME which is Key field in field reference file and another two fields are AGE and ROLL NO are using another file. Please send me coding part.

IBM,

2 7465

Un-Answered Questions { MainFrame }

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

1078

Can you explain cics transaction gateway?

1019

What is catelog procedure and how many catelog procedure to use in one job?

8572

what is u r recent task in insurence project?..plz tell how to tell this.

3269

How to find primary key of a table in db2?

1011

How to Get Information About the Tables?

1625

seqence numbers in cobol

3062

What is PL/I?

1362

What is the role of union all and union

1082

What is input procedure?

964

which cl command is used to trap error messages during program execution?

1401

How to fetch the last row from the table in SQL (db2)?

1602

What does db2 mean?

963

What is alias in db2?

999

Suppose I have a pf, it contains 5 members, how to access particular member data from logical file? What is the use of member in pf?

1062

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