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

What is the most common way of building queue-id of a TSQ? (Name the constituents of the Queue ID).

2 5954

What does the BUFFER option in RECEIVE mean ?

IBM,

1 5156

What is temporary storage?

IBM,

1 4097

Specify the CICS command used to read a VSAM record starting with prefix ?F?. Code all the relevant options.

IBM,

2 7490

What is an MDT (Modified Data Tag) - it's meaning and use?

Polaris,

2 29287

What is a logical message in CICS?

IBM, Syntel, Wipro,

1 6588

Which is the control table where you specify all the transaction that are to be started by CICS after CICS

4 7048

What is the difference between using the READ command with INTO option and SET option?

IBM,

2 5828

What are the CICS commands associated with temporary storage queue processing?

2 11414

Which is the AID that will not be identified in the ANYKEY option of the HANDLE AID command?

1 6069

How would you resolve an ASRA abend?

IBM,

2 17328

What are the differences between and EXEC CICS XCTL and an EXEC CICS START command?

1 9645

What is the general Command format of CICS ?

Amdocs,

1 6025

What other file control processing commands are used for file updating?

1 4725

Can you access QSAM (seq ) files from CICS ?

IBM,

2 8974

Un-Answered Questions { MainFrame }

how may a cgi control duplicate inputs?

1070

Explain the difference between comp & comp-3?

972

how can you prevent more than one user from accessing the same transient data queue?

1087

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

1173

Define an aica abend?

1110

Would you specify freespace ce for an esds?

1087

How long have you been working on mainframes?

971

how will you find a string using pdm?

1151

http default port 80 is used by some other production http service. How can I create an http instance on another port to run cgidev2 and my future cgi developments?

1108

how to initialize a register to 0000?

1157

What is a Foreign Key?

1096

Explain what is a cursor in cics sql processing?

1034

what are the reserved words for cics?

1096

Q:HI friends accually ihave one problem plesase let me know the alternate code of this code. Related field description of code: Add a field, CALvsPRD, "Calendar Day Starts Before/After Production Day" to the parameter set WRKORDER which accepts values 'A' or 'B' o B = Calendar Day Starts Before Production Day o A = Calendar Day Starts After Production Day o Any other value indicates the production and calendar dates are always the same. code: Automatic Execution Of *INZSR Subroutine /Z01 * retrieves WRKORDER field values. /Z01 * Calculate default Production Date and return it to caller. /Z01 * Production date defaults to system date /Z01 C Eval P@Pdate = %DATE() /Z01 * unless Calendar date starts Before PDN(production) date and /Z01 * system time is before PDN Start Time then /Z01 * PDN date is yesterday. /Z01 C If W@CALvsPRD = 'B' and /Z01 C %TIME() < %TIME (W@Strtime) /Z01 C Eval P@Pdate -= %Day(1) /Z01 * unless Calendar date starts After PDN date and /Z01 * system time is *GE PDN(production) Start Time then /Z01 * PDN date is tomorrow. /Z01 C ElseIf W@CALvsPRD = 'A' and W@Strtime > *Zero and /Z01 C %TIME() >= %TIME (W@STrtime) /Z01 C Eval P@Pdate += %Day(1) /Z01 C EndIf /Z01 C Eval *InLr = *On

2528

during execution, an rpg/400 program automatically follows a sequence of operations for each record that is processed. The built-in program cycle includes the following logical steps.

1222

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