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

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

2217

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

CTS,

3 11400

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 5151

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

2 8100

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

Cap Gemini,

3 9878

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,

2176

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

IBM,

2 6385

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

IBM,

2 7082

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 10809

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 6840

wht is packed decimal in cobol

2 7256

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 10625

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

BirlaSoft,

2 8685

without jcl how to run the batch programs

IBM,

2524

how to run batch program without jcl?

HSBC, IBM,

3 11529

Un-Answered Questions { MainFrame }

Highlight the points of differences between XCTL and START?

1226

is this a rpg channel?

1163

what is overlay?

1123

Explain the biggest disadvantage of using a vsam dataset?

1034

What is dbrm in db2 database?

1105

What are the uses of ppt in cics?

992

Define TCT.

1147

System Testing for Mainframe Developers What is System Testing? integration testing ? what's the procedure ..

2072

what are transient data sets defined to cics?

1167

What is rmode(any) ?

1253

How did the release of cobol/370 version 1.3 improve the performance of release 1.1?

1077

How can we see the copy book length using file-aid?

953

if we display var1 then what will b displayed in below condition. 77 var1 pic s9(2) value -10. 77 var1 pic s9(2) value -11. " " " -12. " " " -13. -14 ... ... -19.

6575

Is db2 relational database?

971

What is the maximum number of levels allowed in ims db?

980

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