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 12528

Give some advantages of REDEFINES clause?

Syntel,

2 20881

How do you do in-line PERFORM?

Accenture,

4 18320

Explain call by context by comparing it to other calls.

1 9145

What does EXIT do ?

Deloitte,

3 13715

what is Pic 9v99 Indicates?

2 13592

What is an explicit scope terminator?

3 20283

COMP?

2 6389

What should be the sorting order for SEARCH ALL?

5 10659

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

ABC, HCL, TCS,

6 38176

How do you define a table/array in COBOL?

Hexaware,

5 31455

When is a scope terminator mandatory?

3 9224

How do you submit JCL via a Cobol program?

IBM,

5 20890

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

2 13324

Differentiate COBOL and COBOL-II?

2568

Un-Answered Questions { MainFrame }

Explain how are you going to remove duplicates from the file that is being read?

996

what does opcode post do ?

1756

Name some of the examples of COBOl 11?

3136

What is an area sweep and when is it used?

1537

what are the various types of device files?

1667

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

7555

Space & Skip Are Which Level Keywords?

1189

what is an online rpg?

1259

Yes. Because the alternate key would first locate the primary key, which in turn locates the actual record. Needs twice the number of I/Os.

2413

Which is not true about evaluate statement

2449

what do you mean by gdg in vsam?

1188

Interviewer asked me write down DDS for load all subfile .can anybody write dds

1717

how do I declare a table or array in rpg iv?

1174

What information does a psb contain?

1102

What is output procedure?

993

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