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

can we concate fileds in physical file? If yes how can we do?

5 12078

what is overlay? how can we pass parameters in cl or rpg programing? how can we get data area value in cl or rpg programming?

IBM, Patni,

2 14667

How do pass the values to the parameters in cobol

2 6141

SUPPOSE I HAVE 60 CHARACTERS STING. IN THAT I WANT FIND OUT HOW MANY TIMES 'A'(ASSUME)WILL REPEATED AND I HAVE TO PASS 'E' IN PLACE OF 'A'ALONG THAT STRING.

Wipro,

2 6923

) How do you access the migrate the data from production region to development region

IBM,

1 4606

Where the Plan is located in CICS-DB2

IBM,

2 6353

How do you get the data to code the BMS macro?

IBM,

1971

what are the working storage fields in BMS macro?

IBM,

2 3649

what is the difference between PA & PF keys?

IBM,

1 5232

Whats the difference between search & search ALL?

IBM,

3 6531

If I want to increase the Limit in GDG. What should I do?

IBM,

1 6334

how do u list the abended jobs?

IBM,

1 4383

)If there are 10 steps in GDG, if I want to refer the step2 after step5 . what should I do?

IBM,

2011

What is ASKTIME, SUSPEND

IBM,

1 4979

) what is the difference between AID and HANDLE AID?

IBM,

2156

Un-Answered Questions { MainFrame }

What is the difference between fixed length and variable length records?

874

What is a page in idms?

867

What is ook-rec?

901

Is it possible to move an alphanumeric incentive to a numeric field?

1001

Hi Viewers can any body explain me how to update and ahange the already existed data in physical file using subfile ? please explain me with the code if possible?

5140

Explain sorting techniques in cobol program? Provide the sort file definition, the sort statement, its syntax and meaning

1094

which utility is used a dummy utility?

1472

what is the length of a variable in rpg?

1685

how to run batch program without jcl?

11554

Define redefine and its syntax?

979

in a cobol select statement, can you tell what is the organization for a ksds?

1115

What is a db2 tablespace?

1066

What is multi row fetch in db2?

1051

What is a segment in ims?

1015

What is dbrm? What it contains? When it will be created?

1051

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