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

In an EVALUTE statement is the order of the WHEN clauses significant?

4 12715

Give some advantages of REDEFINES clause?

Syntel,

2 21042

How do you do in-line PERFORM?

Accenture,

4 18514

Explain call by context by comparing it to other calls.

1 9233

What does EXIT do ?

Deloitte,

3 13908

what is Pic 9v99 Indicates?

2 13739

What is an explicit scope terminator?

3 20443

COMP?

2 6520

What should be the sorting order for SEARCH ALL?

5 10864

How is sign stored in Packed Decimal fields and Zoned Decimal fields?

ABC, HCL, TCS,

6 38470

How do you define a table/array in COBOL?

Hexaware,

5 31649

When is a scope terminator mandatory?

3 9359

How do you submit JCL via a Cobol program?

IBM,

5 21135

What is the difference between a DYNAMIC and STATIC call in COBOL?

2 13488

Differentiate COBOL and COBOL-II?

2638

Un-Answered Questions { MainFrame }

how JCL works?

1330

How to test SQL -911 error while developing COB-DB2 program

7678

How would the varchar column remarks defined?

1136

A word in the computer memory is identified by_________

1061

What is inspect?

1060

What is declare cursor?

1171

is there any way I can ease my rpg controls on numeric input fields? How about an input date field?

1173

what is the syntax of ams modal commands?

1329

What do you understand by the term “keyword” with respect to jcl and what is the opposite of the term?

1197

Explain the function of job statement in jcl?

1268

what is amode(24), amode(31), rmode(24) and rmode(any)?

1203

How do you differentiate between cobol and cobol-ii?

1288

Can you define an alias?

1007

Define dynamic processing?

1064

Discuss record management in vsam?

1027

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