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 do you define Task Work Area?

IBM,

1 6534

Can you use DYNAMIC calls in CICS ?

IBM,

2 7478

What is MDT? What are FSET, FRSET ?

IBM,

3 25776

How is addressability achieved to the data outside programs working-storage.?

3 6720

Explain the term Function Request Shipping?

IBM,

1 3801

For multithreading an application program need not be re- entrant(True or False).

1 4646

What is the difference between the XCTL and LINK commands?

IBM,

1 7333

What is the CICS Command that is used for reading a record from the TDQ?

IBM,

1 4926

What does EIB mean?

IBM,

3 33440

What is the purpose of the Program List Table?

IBM,

2 6922

The first step in the development of an application system is the Requirement Analysis(True or False).

1 4294

Do you require a table entry for a TSQ?

IBM,

2 7117

Explain the basic difference between Intra partition TDQ and Extra partition TDQ.

IBM,

2 17291

What command do you issue to delete a record in a transient data queue ?

IBM,

1 4761

What is the common work area (CWA)?

EDS, IBM,

1 15843

Un-Answered Questions { MainFrame }

Difference Between Ca & Cf?

1052

How can we debug cobol pgm containig idms using xpeditor?

1464

What is the distinction amongst include and copy?

939

how do you use exceptional write in c specs?

1825

Explain how to find occurrence of mu and pe fields in a file?

873

explain in brief how you can create a vsam file?

1084

How to override loadlib?

1966

what is message file?

1009

what is the favicon.ico request that my site receives now and then?

1058

what u mean by csrloc and rtncsrloc in rpgIV in as/400.Give an eg? to do...give some coding...what is row no and column no ???..if possible...give a no of lines coding....please

4399

what is the maximum number of record formats in dspf?

1619

What is static and dynamic call in cobol?

1016

What is the difference between read work file 1 and read work file once? Why we are using work file once?

925

What is the default value(s) for an initialize? What keyword will allow for an override of the default?

1071

What is the difference between comp and comp-3 usage?

1137

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