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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I want to set position for a particular text in a certain position in several of my cics maps.Please provide me with a solution. Ex: If "F1-Help" has to be set to pos(4,27) always in all the maps within a PDS.

2316

How do u find the programs calling the given module, without having doing 3.13 on loadlib/source library?

2 7254

How to resolve -805 error in DB2?

Cap Gemini,

1 36211

How to resolve -803 sql code in DB2?

Cap Gemini,

3 44395

How to resolve -818 sql code in DB2?

Cap Gemini,

2 24455

How to resolve -502 sql code in DB2?

Cap Gemini,

2 25345

How to resolve -917 sql code in DB2?

Cap Gemini,

3 17044

How to resolve -407 sql code in DB2?

Cap Gemini,

9 31614

How to resolve -504 sql code in DB2?

Cap Gemini,

2 18946

This question regarding Checkpoint. Suppose my program has checkpoint for every 100 records. If my program abends at 120 records, what will happen. I know first 100 records are committed and rest of 20 records where they gone and where they are stored.

IBM, John Deere,

1 9953

how can we pass parameters from JCL to cobol subprogram...my requirement is i should not get data from mainprogram but i need it from JCL directly

IBM, TCS,

5 24305

How to get the last but one duplicate record of the file using Sort?

Fidelity,

2 11059

How to find the number of duplicates in a file using Sort?

Fidelity,

4 27078

can anybody help me to solve this problem. the program that i m checking display error message saying "Record format for file AJDSPFFD does not match model file and decimal error. how to solve this problem. The AJDSPFFD is snapshot the AJTLOG that is the audit trail list.

2801

what is the COND=EVEN ? Can anyone give me an example to explain the usage.

2 8253

Un-Answered Questions { MainFrame }

is this a rpg channel?

1170

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

1112

can anybody post me about file-aid and changemen tools pls and give me reference if any mainframe guys are there

2473

What are the contents of dclgen?

1112

does uni-rexx give me any capabilities designed specifically for the unix environment?

978

what is the difference between udate and the system date?

2068

What is the difference between the positional and keyword parameters? Give examples.

1260

what is the difference between a return with transid and xctl? For example program. A is issuing return with transid to program b. Program a. Is isssuing xctl to program b?

1186

Explain acbgen process?

1101

What are steplib and joblib? What for they are used?

1229

What are the error (ONCODES) codes did you encounter in PL/1 programme?

2917

Mention one alternative aspect of CICS?

1073

What does sqlcabc has?

1055

How we will get issues on AS/400 technology ? I mean which issue/Defect Tracking tool is using in all companies when any issue comes? Can anybody explain about the work flow of AS/400 project ? plzzz

1701

Why do chiropractors use drop table?

1109

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