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

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

IBM,

3 5840

Name some commands used for CICS file browsing.

2 6105

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

1 4210

What is EXEC CICS RETRIEVE ?

IBM,

1 25839

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

CTS, IBM,

1 4499

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

1 5286

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

IBM,

3 14395

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

2287

Which type of TDQ is read destructive?

IBM,

1 8021

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

IBM,

5 9145

What is the meaning of the SYNCPOINT command?

IBM,

1 12585

How do you initiate another transaction?

1 4338

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

IBM,

1 11367

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

IBM, ITC Infotech,

2 14236

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

IBM,

4 11874

Un-Answered Questions { MainFrame }

Why select is not preferred in embedded sql programs?

1297

Define db2.

1104

What is compiler directive in as400? Give example of compiler directive.?

1092

Code the related portions of cics/cobol-i programs to gain addressability to twa area assigned to a particular task. Assme that the size of twa area is 300bytes. What are the advantages if cobol-ii is used in the place of cobol?

1138

What is a trigger in the db2 database?

1068

which utility is used to sort a file in jcl?

1214

Are view updateable?

1039

What is interval control?

1127

how do I preserve and clean the array?

1142

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

1050

what is search and searchall?what is the diffrence between them?give an best example?

6805

How do I start db2 in windows?

1086

Where do you specify them?

1268

How to execute 2nd and 4th steps among 5 steps in jcl proc?

1305

What is dbid used in adabas?

941

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