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 COBOL helps Mainframe to maintain large records ???

1 3491

Which is the best IBM mainframe Training Institute in Ameerpet, Hyderabad

35 54451

If you are current on the owner of a set, what is the difference between an obtain next and obtain first? Actually in which topic will we use dis???Plz explain it clearly

3216

RPG/400 number of Records present in a physical file using file information data structure FPF001 IP E DISK F KINFDS INFDS1 IINFDS1 DS I *RECORD RECORD Is this coding correct sir,i have given I P E that is I- input,P-primary file,E-externally described. Primary to use RPG logic cycle,is this the correct method because we have to find number of records present using file information data structure in RPG/400 without doing any input/output operations on the file and also without using DSPFD,SQL. If the above coding is correct means,when i compile the program it gets compiled,but if i call the program it does not return anything,i need number of records,please complete the coding sir.

IBM,

1 9911

WHAT IS DUMMY IN JCL? HOW TO USE IT? CAN ANYBODY SEND PROGRAM ON THIS?

3 8570

WHAT IS 3.12,3.14 ? DIFFERENCES?

2 6808

can i see how many records does a vsam file have without browsing or without using file-aid? and same for ps file?

Tech Mahindra,

3 9947

At the minimum, which division of COBOL is enough to be coded?

CTS,

3 8373

Define REDEFINE clause and Is it possible to have the redefine clause anywhere in the working storage section for a data name?

3 7873

Consider the below example call a-test1. -- -- -- a-test1. if a=b perform a-test through a-exit next sentence else if b=c perform c-test through c-exit. if a=d perform d-test through d-exit. a-test. -- -- a-exit. exit. can u tell me what will happen if a=b after looping into a-exit will the control go back to a- test1. will the condition a=d be checked???

IBM,

5 8007

once we submitted the job to the operating system, how can we cancel the job before execution?

2 6176

what is the cobol compiler?

TCS,

2 9644

are we use the group by clause in cursors?

Cap Gemini,

3 10484

what is the differences between spufi and qmf and which is better?

Accenture, Cap Gemini,

4 12135

here is my requirement A1 is alphanumeric with value 'A1B2C3D4' as defined below 05 A1 PIC X(8) VALUE IS 'A1B2C3D4' but i need to have A2,A3 as ABCD & 1234 repectively...... A2 = ABCD A3 = 1234 Can you please explain me what are the different ways to do it?

IBM,

2 8047

Un-Answered Questions { MainFrame }

How to create db2 table in mainframe?

1229

can we describe the results of opening for input empty vsam files in a cobol program?

1067

Tandem COBOL Interview questions (on TACL,SCOBOL,ENSCRIBE,PATHWAY0

23733

write a jcl to execute a job by 7:00 am on jan 20,1986?

1171

how JCL works?

1336

What is the meaning of Copy IDMS Subschema-Binds?

1769

State the difference between jes2 and jes3?

1074

Explain the meaning of spufi?

1105

What are the sub parameters for undo command?

1153

How to get the last record in vsam file in cluster? And how can you get the ksds file records into your cobol program?

1216

can error messages as a result of a comp, range or values keyword be overridden?

2039

What does sqlcabc has?

1107

What is package in cobol db2?

1169

What is the common work area?

1051

what is service program?

1101

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