MainFrame Interview Questions, Answers for Freshers and Experienced asked in various Company Job Interviews

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MainFrame Interview Questions

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i want to learn mainframe..any websites and material to learn from basic..? my mail id : rajeswaribe2010@gmail.com

2221

Is it possible to delete Symbolic Map? What is the impactness if we delete symbolic map?

CTS,

3 11427

I have sequential file recl 1000 i want to add another 15 bytes to it. The record length should not change..How?

CTS, HCL,

1 5180

How to print data of sequential file to Spool..?

2 8113

Particular area has been affected in cics screen, what is the process to find?

Cap Gemini,

3 9890

before altering a table is it necessary to lock ? if lock what is it ? how to do ? ifi want to lock a table what is that command ?

IBM,

2181

what is the total syntax for fetch ? can any one please give me all the details of fetch ? thx

IBM,

2 6401

can we view the access paths created by dbrm ? how ? thx

IBM,

2 7098

suppose in my table 10 rows are there , i want to update odd rows salary as 90000 ? how u do it ? any one help me ? what do we use here cursor-fetch or normal sql ?

IBM,

5 10832

i have a ps with two columns eno and ename , i need to copy eno column values in one ps and ename column values in one Ps ? is it possible through iebgener . how ? thx in advance

IBM, TCS,

1 6850

wht is packed decimal in cobol

2 7268

How do you round the addition or subtraction of two numbers in assembler? what does the following code do? AP WKUR,=P'5' where WKUR is a label

CSC, IBM,

3 10650

what is sort? whis is internal & external sort ?when do u go for inter sort & external sort? tell about some sort utilites?

BirlaSoft,

2 8703

without jcl how to run the batch programs

IBM,

2534

how to run batch program without jcl?

HSBC, IBM,

3 11554

Un-Answered Questions { MainFrame }

what is rpg fixed logic cycle?

1208

Pose, there are 100 records in the file.i need to retrieve all the records matching/equal to the particular name field. How can we do the above using search criteria other than using the if cond?

1050

How may sets be ordered?

892

How to change the batch job to interactive job?

989

Explain processing program table(ppt)?

1157

Service Program : S1 Modules in S1 : M1 M1 having two procedures : ADD, SUB Current Binder Language STRPGMEXP PGMLVL(*CURRENT) EXPORT SYMBOL("ADD") EXPORT SYMBOL("SUB") ENDPGMEXP Doubt: I need to add one new Module to the Service Program M2 having one procedure ‘MULT’ How to add this new module to the service program S1 ? If I need to recreate the service program again, Do I need to mention the Module M1 again while recreating along with new Module M2? There is no Binding Directory. Binder language structure will be like this STRPGMEXP PGMLVL(*CURRENT) EXPORT SYMBOL("ADD") EXPORT SYMBOL("SUB") EXPORT SYMBOL("MULT") ENDPGMEXP STRPGMEXP PGMLVL(*PREVIOUS) EXPORT SYMBOL("ADD") EXPORT SYMBOL("SUB") ENDPGMEXP

2374

What is drda ?

1117

which utility is used to run a cobol-db2 program?

1401

Explain how will you differentiate between an internal and an external sort, the pros and cons, internal sort syntax etc

1253

What is isolation level in db2?

1005

what is the command to know key fields of file?

1176

how to define global parameter in ile ?

1191

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

2138

What does db2 stand for?

1025

what difference exists between control area and control interval?

1042

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