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 we rectify soc7 and soc4 errors in project?

Anaxis, TCS,

1 5913

how to identify the pseudo conversation by seeing the program

DELL,

2 7768

how can we find total no of records in a file ....is there any utility......?

IBM,

3 7838

how will u pass dadta to cobol+db2 program...?

IBM,

4 9721

can anyone explain me about sort in jcl with inrec and outrec ?

HCL,

2 15248

in production region 100 steps are running,but i need to run only step5 without changing code how can i do it?

HCL,

4 11686

which is better either static call or dynamic call? and why?

HCL,

5 11873

can we redefine 77 level item is it possible

HCL,

4 10952

what are difference organizations in cobol and access mode in cobol? can you expalin what organization means while declaring for ksds,esds,rrds?

HCL,

1 9205

what is the advantage of using redefines instead of delaring the variables ?

HCL,

5 10408

cobol-db2 runjcl please?

DELL,

2 6600

can we update the table by using cursors can anyone post the query?

DELL, HCL,

5 10873

is there any lock for vsam file so that no one can update the vsam file ?

HCL,

2 9716

what is the use of aix in vsam why do we go for aix and wht is build index in vsam?

HCL, IBM,

5 12302

WORKING-STORAGE SECTION. 01 A PIC X(3) VALUE 'ABC' 01 B PIC 9(3). PROCEDURE DIVISION. MOVE A TO B. STOP RUN. OUTPUT IS: AB3 WHY AND HOW THIS IS HAPPENING.

Atos Origin,

4 8304

Un-Answered Questions { MainFrame }

Which Search verb is equivalent to PERFORM…VARYING?

1002

How can you use dynamic calls in cics?

1003

how do you pass parameters in cl?

1726

what is a primary file?

1642

Explain how to pass instream data in sysin with assembler?

1021

If a ceo wants to see all employees of the company from an online screen. How will be the design of the map from the developer point of view?

972

can you change the attribute in mapset? if so how?

2074

Differentiate between cs and rr isolation levels? Where do you specify them?

1025

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

1324

Explain the thress bms options?

964

What is a junction record?

1303

which is the cics control program that provides communication services between user written application programs and terminals?

945

how do you create a dataset in a jcl with the same file organisation as that of another existing dataset?

1332

How does control intervals and control areas related to each other?

963

Comment whether dclgen is mandatorily used. If not, then what is the point of using it?

1009

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