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 4634

What does the BUFFER option in RECEIVE mean ?

IBM,

1 4323

What is temporary storage?

IBM,

1 3403

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

IBM,

2 6383

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

Polaris,

2 27684

What is a logical message in CICS?

IBM, Syntel, Wipro,

1 5392

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

4 5590

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

IBM,

2 4711

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

2 10104

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

1 5262

How would you resolve an ASRA abend?

IBM,

2 16021

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

1 8548

What is the general Command format of CICS ?

Amdocs,

1 4822

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

1 3908

Can you access QSAM (seq ) files from CICS ?

IBM,

2 7881


Un-Answered Questions { MainFrame }

How do we get current date from system with century in COBOL?

796


If an array is multi-dimensional dynamic array how do you deal with it & provide me some examples?

1986


Name the various locking levels available?

630


which cl command can be used at program execution to redirect the file named in an rpg program?

704


) how do u code after getting data?

1578






How can we arrange duplicate records in a file?

601


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?

6802


WHAT IS FERERENTIAL INTRIGRITY ?

1098


Explain difference between call and link?

554


how to write code for singlepage in sqlrpgle with update ?

2365


Suppose you are processing an input file in a natural program and you want the program to fail if the file is empty. What command you use in natural to force it to fail?

570


How to submit jcl through a cobol program?

673


What is the problem of ordered sequential files access?

692


what do you mean by the repro command?

566


Is it slower if you access a record through alt index as compared to primary index?

592