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 6391

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 4707

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

Syntel,

1 9106

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

1 3050

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

2490

how to set dependancy for jobs?

4 15311

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

ANZ,

4 9947

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 3062

how can you access index

IBM, Tech Mahindra,

4 9642

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 13531

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

2 8800

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 14538

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 12716

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

IBM,

7 14502

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

1 11781

Un-Answered Questions { MainFrame }

What is release/acquire in bind?

1106

explain about maximum displacement and how to cross this limit?

1149

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

9106

can we describe the results of opening for input empty vsam files in a cobol program?

1015

what are the codes returned by the ams (access method services) command during the execution in vsam?

1289

Where do you specify them?

1283

write a program to read from a VSAM file , there will be a 5 records to create name. empno. resignation and address to update in a db2 table and call another program using dynamic call to find the matching fields in program 1 to update in db2 table. anybody pls send de program for dis ? thanks in advance...

2745

how to handle -911 (deadlock) error in a db2 program so that the program will never abend?

1035

What is perform?

1101

What are different data types in cobol?

1322

how can you specify no duplicate key?

1150

What is meant by an attribute byte?

1048

Discuss record management in vsam?

970

What rules are followed by the search verb.

1118

Explain how would you resolve an asra abend?

992

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