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 enter the name 'pandu' into ur table how?

1 6371

How to import the cics code for updations? what are steps do we need follow for execution again after modification? plz any body help me to know

IBM,

1 4694

what is difference bt COND, REGION & TIME parameters at JOB & EXEC. give an exp.

Syntel,

1 9098

in real time what is the suitable exp where in-stream procedure is better then catalog procedure.

1 3038

hi.... anybody send real time project related questions & answers whatever will ask in interview plz.....help me? advanced thanks....

2480

how to set dependancy for jobs?

4 15302

how to get duplicate records from tables?write qurey for this?

ANZ,

4 9913

which certifications r 4 cobol,jcl,db2,cics what is format of xam n what is importance of these certifications... plz post answer only if u r sure... thanks

1 3048

how can you access index

IBM, Tech Mahindra,

4 9624

01rec1. 05 a pic 999v99 value 123.12 05 b pic 99v9 value 45.9 02 rec2. 05 x pic 999v99 05 y pic 99v99 05 z pic x(3) value 'abc' if rec1 is moved to rec2 then what is the value of rec2?

Amdocs,

5 13484

How do I link an existing logical file to it's Physical File without recompiling?

2 8783

ID DIVISION. PROGRAM-ID. PLO. DATA DIVISION. WORKING-STORAGE SECTION. 01 VAR1 PIC 9(2). 01 VAR2 PIC X(2). PROCEDURE DIVISION. ACCEPT VAR2. MOVE VAR2 TO VAR1. STOP RUN. if i give 'PI' in var2 then what will b output of progr. any abend?????

TCS,

6 14502

can u give result for the fallowing example... 05 a pic 9(2) 05 b redifines a pic x(2). move 'xy' to b. display a,b.

IBM,

10 12655

By seeing the file itself how can we identify whether it is A vsam file or flat file

IBM,

7 14455

which MONMSG will give higher priority in CL program? I know MONMSG are of two types. Program Level Monmsg and Command Monmsg?

1 11772

Un-Answered Questions { MainFrame }

Name some of the examples of COBOl 11?

3136

What is concatenating?

1074

What is the difference between bind and rebind in db2?

1444

Highlight the points of differences between XCTL and START?

1226

can oorexx run ibm object rexx programs?

1000

Define cics interface block?

987

i made it to stage 3 of an interview process wednessday they will quiz my knowledge again face to face for an analyst role recruiter said it will be based on Business requirements system is cobol and good ideas what they might ask etc

2589

Explain the difference between comp & comp-3?

953

how is the future of tandem mainframe?

3378

What are catalog tables in db2?

1044

suppose oza017.myorg.emp has 100 records ,oza018.myorg.staff has 200 records but 50 are the common records in both files copy all the common records into oza017.myorg.xyz dataset?

1000

What are the different type of meta operations available in plex

1713

Which is the difference between delimited by size and delimited by space?

1085

What are the cics transactions?

1021

What are the different parameters that are used in vsam?

1152

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