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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In the CICS command level all the re-entrancy issues are handled by the System(True or False).

1 3654

In which CICS table would you specify the length of the TASK WORK AREA (TWA)?

IBM, TCS,

3 9205

What are the three BMS options ?

3 6351

What is the difference between the INTO and the SET option in the EXEC CICS RECEIVE MAP command?

1 6517

What are the CICS commands available for program control?

IBM,

1 4570

Once a transient data queue is read, can it be reread?

2 6346

An XCTL uses more CPU time than LINK (True or False)

1 6725

Can you simply check if length = 0 for checking if a field was modified?

IBM,

3 6798

Translation Time is not reduced if the Pre-compilation is done first(True or False).

Kanbay,

1 5165

The error code AEIV?

IBM,

1 9499

What is CECI?

IBM,

5 19389

What is ATI? What kind of TDQ can be used?

IBM,

3 14307

What is the option specified in the read operation to gain multiple concurrent operations on the same dataset?

IBM,

1 6338

List all the CICS tables and explain their contents.

IBM,

3 10249

A mapset consists of three maps and 10 fields on each map . How many of the following will be needed ?

3 8286

Un-Answered Questions { MainFrame }

Are you comfortable in cobol or jcl?

1041

Name the cics command used to access current date and time?

1128

Explain the difference between temporary storage queue (tsq) and transient data quene (tdq)?

991

how to send a sms to a mobile through mainframe mvs?

1180

what difference exists between control area and control interval?

1038

Explain index cardinality?

1053

Explain how do you control cursor positioning?

1004

Explain the difference between tsq and tdq

983

How to connect to db2 database from windows command line?

1060

when is a tag statement used in rpg?

2228

how to run other job when one job is active?

1014

What is the difference between run mode and addressing mode?

1242

What are the record format field mapping options in cpyf?

1021

How to change size of Initial number of records to *NOMAX for ALL PF files from perticular library, how can I do that

3227

What Are Send Map Maponly & Send Map Dataonly ?

1201

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