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MainFrame Interview Questions

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what is a trigger and types of triggers

3 9171

I have a table name Table1 which contain columns Cust_no, car_model, country, salesamt. The records are 101, Fiat, India, 12345 2nd record is 102, Tata, USA, 98743 3rd record is 101, indica, India, 65342 4th record is 103, Toyota, UK, 64522 5th record is 103, Maruti, USA, 98632 and so on..... Now my question is write sql query which will give me detail about the sum of sales amount in perticular country

IBM,

2 6553

01 A pic 9(100) find record length of it

TCS,

6 11683

what is a steplib

CGI,

4 8286

using cursor how can you fetch more than one record into a variable

Syntel,

3 8114

If I defined space as TRK(10,10) for the one file and lrecl = 4K then tell me how many record will vsam file will contain. will it 1,2,3,4,5 or how many,

IBM,

3 8286

What is the difference between shroptions(2 3) and shroptions (4 3) in the Def CLUSTER ??

3 10703

give the examples for strings and unstrings in cobol

IBM,

2 8048

what is rebinding ?

IBM,

1 5912

what is the use of bind parameter, Replace?

IBM,

5 10765

can we access sequential files online

Cap Gemini, GS,

4 9431

can we creat a member logical file

3 10179

if a>b continue display x. dispaly y. end-if display 1 display 2. display 3. what should be my output ?

3 5642

can we write a proc with in a proc

IBM,

4 7981

what is the compile process of cobol program expalin with code

IBM,

2586

Un-Answered Questions { MainFrame }

What is idms-restart ?

1485

In case if the user inputs the characters which turn out to be uppercase, then what is the procedure to close that condition?

1028

give three main purposes of file specification ?

1741

what would I use uni-rexx for?

954

Can you define mdt?

1085

Explain how to produce soc7 abend?

1070

What is comp-1?

960

What is the use of the program list table?

1080

What is the contrast between delimited by space and delimited by size?

963

In COBOL, what is the different between index and subscript?

1245

Db2 what is the difference between a package and a plan. How does one bind 2 versions of a cics transaction with the same module name in two different cicsregions that share the same db2 subsystem?

1128

What is the use of member in pf?

992

how can the same proc be re-used and called by many jobs?

1509

maximum number of subfiles that can be active for a single file is?

1702

Why do we code s9 (4) comp. Inspite of knowing comp-3 will occupy less space?

1153

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