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

Can a PS file be read in reverse order?If so,how

Syntel,

2 9631

How many days does a job remain in spool

Syntel,

7 12855

Please give me the coding for converting VB to FB and FB to VB

HP,

3 19832

I hv ten records in ps file and i hv say some 15 records in vsam file .i hv empno and age in ps file n empno,empname,dept n desig in vsam file. i hv 2 read the ps file n check wid matching empno in vsam file and then insert all fields from ps and vsam into db2 table....plz help in writin the procedure division

1 5216

If we use GO BACK instead of STOP RUN in cobol?

Temenos,

1 6231

how you will define variables length in cobol.

Temenos,

3 10075

can we declare occurs in 01 level?

Temenos,

2 6586

how to create temporary data set in jcl? what is the use?

Cap Gemini, Temenos,

3 20019

How to concatenation one or more string?

Temenos,

4 13961

If we use GO BACK instead of STOP RUN in cobol?

Temenos,

2 7851

what is difference between Static call and Dynamic call? How does it function?

Syntel,

1 5776

what is different three logs in DB2?

Syntel,

1 5770

what is difference between random and sequence file access

Syntel,

1 5155

How do you run JCL in cobol program

IBM, Syntel,

1 5644

what is difference between Plan and Package

Syntel,

1 6118

Un-Answered Questions { MainFrame }

What is meant by bmp mode?

1077

I have a File that has duplicate records. I need only those records that occur more than thrice.?

9891

Explain how to receive data passed through jcl parm parameter in a natural program? How data definition is defined in the program?

1130

What is the max length of sqlca?

1216

suppose oza017.myorg.emp has 100 records ,oza018.myorg.staff has 200 records but 50 are the common records in both files copy all the common records into oza017.myorg.xyz dataset?

1009

What are the different rules for performing sort operation?

1224

Why include statement is used in a jcl?

1181

can any one exaplin about Decision Tables in test region with good example

2785

how you will the direct the data to spool using sysout option?

2434

What is the syncpoint command?

1214

What is the information associated with sysibm.syslinks table?

1125

How can we debug cobol pgm containig idms using xpeditor?

1516

Explain the difference between cics program control table (pct) and cics processing program table (ppt)?

1065

What is the interactive job?

1024

what is utility for parm lib

2378

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