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 to skip the steps in JCl

EDS,

2 9807

there are 10 steps in jcl how to execute the steps from step2 to step8 only

EDS,

6 14332

what is the cond=even only

EDS,

4 9073

how to concatenate datasets

EDS,

5 24130

what is instream data

EDS,

2 7367

can we give instream data in procedure

EDS,

6 19605

in jcl you are having JCLLIB and STEPLIB what happens

EDS, Wipro,

10 26601

what is the difference b/w sequential and ESDS

EDS, IBM, Maples,

6 12465

what is freespace

EDS,

2 9607

what is control interval(CI) and control Area(CA)

EDS,

4 11338

88 class is used for

CTS, EDS,

5 10533

how to access vsam files in cobol and how to differentiate that this is ESDS file

EDS,

1 7882

what is the difference between normal select query and currosor

Cap Gemini, TCS,

2 17616

when we are tying to update a table having 100 rows. if the program abends when updating 51 row . how to start updating again from the 51 row .what was the logic

TCS,

2 10212

How can we know that cobol program is using report file or simple file....?

4 8872

Un-Answered Questions { MainFrame }

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

3804

which are control break logic indicators?

1170

Tell me what type of files we can process thru file-aid?

1007

What is amode(24), amode(31), rmode(24) and rmode(any) (applicable to only mvsesa enterprise server) ?

1279

Define cedf?

1021

what is the difference between normal upddta to pf and updating using dfu program?

1404

How dummy is used in jcl?

1207

What will happen if both steplib and joblib are specified?

1097

i tried to copy some records from microsoft excel to as-400 physical file through "Bosanova" emulation. Out of 14000 records only 12000 records copies and subsequently programe started to hang. Then, i closed the program forcefully. I did' under stand the problem. Also when i try to compile the physical file it is showing as "The file in use". How to overcome this problem?

2610

Can there be more than one cursor open for any program?

1232

What tools are available in PL/1?

1578

What are the types of data structure in as400?

1100

What is copy pending status in db2?

1195

what is the meaning, the advantages and which are the types of evaluate statement?

1115

What is the maximum size of varchar data type in db2?

1191

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