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MainFrame Interview Questions

Questions Answers Views Company eMail

How many ways are there for initiating a transaction? what are they?

IBM,

3 5976

Name some commands used for CICS file browsing.

2 6221

If no exception handling is provided in the program, what will happen ?

1 4291

What is EXEC CICS RETRIEVE ?

IBM,

1 26004

What information do you get when an EXEC CICS STARTCODE is issued?

CTS, IBM,

1 4600

Which CICS service transaction is used to gain accessibility to CICS control tables?

1 5368

How do you delete Item 3 in a five-item TSQ?

IBM,

3 14574

What are the differences between Temporary Storage Queue (TSQ) and Transient Data Queue (TDQ).?

2349

Which type of TDQ is read destructive?

IBM,

1 8134

How many exceptional condition can be given in a HANDLE CONDITION?

IBM,

5 9321

What is the meaning of the SYNCPOINT command?

IBM,

1 12738

How do you initiate another transaction?

1 4421

Can you use OCCURS in a BMS map? If you do, what are the issues related with its use?

IBM,

1 11469

For a CICS-DB2 program, how is the plan referenced?

IBM, ITC Infotech,

2 14391

If I create a TSQ from one transaction, can I read it from another transaction?

IBM,

4 12099

Un-Answered Questions { MainFrame }

which are the relational operators in rpg?

1177

Explain about LMQUERY�give a dialog information about a data set

1517

What is a db2 schema?

1302

What's The Error Code For Unique Index Voilation?

1317

What are the contents of a dclmgen?

1183

Is it possible to alter a table – for example adding a column, when another user is accessing or updating some columns?

1149

What is release/acquire in bind?

1165

What statement marks the beginning of a job step; assigns a name to the step; identifies the program or catalogued or in-stream procedure to be executed in the step?

1163

Explain how do you access the records randomly in tsq?

1184

What do we mean by 'Virtual storage' for a dataset and for a JOBSTEP ? What is the significance of the following statement for a programmer 'Virtual storage results in program addresses being independent of the addresses that actually exist in a computer' ?

2080

What is concurrency?

1308

Hi,Can any body give the code for the below mentioned quetion.?Im trying to get coding in with easily inderstanding.Plese give me the coding for this? 1.How would you achieve this requirement with out using RPG/RPGLE pgm,but by using only CL?Read a database file and display file contents on the screen when enter key pressed the next record should be displayed on screen.When the last record is reached or when F3 key is pressed the program should exit if the file is empty,a message should be displayed indicate that there are no records to display. Database file Name=EMPDBF Fields in EMPDBF to be displayed on screen Employee Number- EMPNUM(5,0) Employee Name- EMPNAM(30,A) Employee Address-EMP ADDR(50 A)

2253

how do you reference the variable block file formats from cobol programs

1314

How to retrieve rows from a db2 table in embedded sql?

1452

by using xpeditor if we want to debug the subpgm, how can you code in x-ped for mai-pgm n sub-pgm ?

2336

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