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

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

3 6671

COuld you please let me know along with a sample on how are you going to remove duplicates from the file that is being read. Thanks Sam

TCS,

2 9870

How to update physical file in rpgle without using display file?

GalaxE, IBM, TCS,

4 20396

what is redefines? where it can be effectively use for the purpose of memory utilization? give an example?

IBM,

4 8543

i am a btech cs 2009 passout. i am opting for mainframe course. is it good to do this course? pls. anyone suggest me

4 6113

when iam reading a flat file which has 100 records through cobol program when iam reading 50th records it gets abends .. so when i run the program again it should read from 50th record .where it got abened ? how it is possible

Patni,

1 7766

what is soc7 abend?how u can trace it?

Accenture,

4 14041

There are two flat files one having 10 records and other having 5 records. write a cobol pgm to find the duplicate records(matching records)from both files.

Mind Tree,

1 7968

01 text-data pic x(100). move 'xyzdbfrjjg u' to text-data. how to find the value of last index of text-data?

Mind Tree,

3 8040

What hapens when we use CPYF command to copy a LF? On which PF will it be dependent???

HSBC, Systime,

7 18509

What is the General Command format Of CICS

IBM,

3 7522

How does COBOL11 and CICS release 1.7 provide for exceptional and how does that differ from VS COBOL and earlier CICS release?

IBM,

1 3997

NAME SOME TRANSLATOR AND COMPILE OPTION AND EXPLAINE THEIR MEANING

Fujitsu,

1 5122

what is u r recent task in insurence project?..plz tell how to tell this.

Syntel,

3254

how to get last 100 records in file-aid?

Syntel,

1 7431

Un-Answered Questions { MainFrame }

Hello, I have 3 years of exp as a mainframes tester in a leading IT company, now am looking to change my company. Could you please let me know, what are the interview questions/topics i should prepare. Your suggestions are truly valuable for me :) Thanks !!

1881

WHAT IS AS/400 SYNORIO?

3311

What is catalog database in db2?

1102

how many levels are there in a physical file?

1707

what are JCLLIB and STEPLIB in JCL?

1112

What is the need of base registers in IBM 360/370?

2607

please..could u give an example about USAGE IS POINTER ..and explain why and when we use it ?

2409

What is the term “where” for?

953

How to update physical file using logical file with example?

1007

Explain control variable in online screens?

948

How to create a link between multiple maps in a mapset? How to make use of Transid in this case?

1885

How to take backup of table in db2?

1023

How to find or access the current level of a gdg?

782

What is the difference between spufi and qmf?

1054

Difference between cobol and cobol-ii?

1197

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