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

What are the necessary keywords required to code a message subfile?

3 15074

What is the purpose of FRCDTA keyword?

IBM,

3 13279

What is the purpose of PUTOVR keyword?

2 12531

What is journalling and commitment control?

IBM,

3 11389

What is the purpose of Panel Groups?

4 19467

How can a screen field that has changed since the last output operation be detected?

IBM,

4 9274

What would be the effect on the field where reverse image, underline and high intensity?

IBM,

7 16455

Can more than one subfile record be displayed on one line?

IBM,

7 23874

about ICM instruction.

EDS,

4 18754

about maximum displacement and how to cross this limit.

EDS,

2 8583

change process tool( code changes from dev to prd) The changes made to your code should be effected in live. how the process takes place. that is how can you move the code changes from development to production.

EDS,

1 4529

how to access VSAm file

EDS, IBM,

2 9672

cobol and assembler access

EDS,

2 7032

how to find the dump

EDS,

3 12938

how to produce SOC7 abend

EDS, IBM,

1 8555

Un-Answered Questions { MainFrame }

How do you round the addition or subtraction of two numbers in assembler?

1033

What is the comaera?

1259

How do you get parameter from JCL to PL1?

2435

what is scan and xlate?

1843

what will happen when you try to open an empty vsam file in a cobol program for input?

1051

How to get the ddl of a table in db2?

1131

What is the difference between next sentence and continue in cobol programing language?

1223

Can you explain multitasking and multithreading?

1154

I HAVE 500 ROW TO UPDATE I WOULD LIKE TO USE ROLLBACK ALONG WITH COMMIT.WHAT IS THE SYNTAX TO CODE COMMIT AND ROLLBACK FOR EVERY 100 ROWS.AND HOW THE CURSOR ROLLBACK TO THE LAST COMMITTING POINT.

3214

How can i load all the data from a file to Table (array) in cobol.How i manage the occurs clause with out reading the file.Any options avilable ? Please can any one help me it is urgent?

2587

What is psbgen process?

1164

difference between sflrcdnbr and sflnxtchg?

1182

Explain the device independent method to indicate where a record is stored?

921

define data structure?

1765

What is the difference between copybooks and subprocedures in as400?

1360

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