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 15232

What is the purpose of FRCDTA keyword?

IBM,

3 13435

What is the purpose of PUTOVR keyword?

2 12649

What is journalling and commitment control?

IBM,

3 11507

What is the purpose of Panel Groups?

4 19672

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

IBM,

4 9420

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

IBM,

7 16681

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

IBM,

7 24115

about ICM instruction.

EDS,

4 18962

about maximum displacement and how to cross this limit.

EDS,

2 8697

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 4618

how to access VSAm file

EDS, IBM,

2 9791

cobol and assembler access

EDS,

2 7145

how to find the dump

EDS,

3 13064

how to produce SOC7 abend

EDS, IBM,

1 8633

Un-Answered Questions { MainFrame }

What is next sentence and continue unique?

1111

How many root segments do we have per database record?

1098

Code the related portions of cics/cobol-i programs to gain addressability to twa area assigned to a particular task. Assme that the size of twa area is 300bytes. What are the advantages if cobol-ii is used in the place of cobol?

1181

Is it possible to combine uni-rexx with a compiled language in any application? What applications interfaces are there?

993

Explain the difference between external subroutine and subprogram?

1313

name the command that is used to dump the main storage areas related to a task?

1152

is oorexx compatible with rexx?

1010

What is drop table?

1073

Can you explain primary aspect of cics?

1230

Can you define transid?

1083

Is there any command to check wether the ps file is in sorted order?

2964

If a ceo wants to see all employees of the company from an online screen. How will be the design of the map from the developer point of view?

1091

Explain how to produce soc7 abend?

1146

what is swap-in and swap-out?

1160

how can the same proc be re-used and called by many jobs?

1572

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