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 11810

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 14537

How do pass the values to the parameters in cobol

2 6005

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 6821

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

IBM,

1 4503

Where the Plan is located in CICS-DB2

IBM,

2 6210

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

IBM,

1922

what are the working storage fields in BMS macro?

IBM,

2 3497

what is the difference between PA & PF keys?

IBM,

1 5151

Whats the difference between search & search ALL?

IBM,

3 6365

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

IBM,

1 6231

how do u list the abended jobs?

IBM,

1 4291

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

IBM,

1956

What is ASKTIME, SUSPEND

IBM,

1 4891

) what is the difference between AID and HANDLE AID?

IBM,

2099

Un-Answered Questions { MainFrame }

What are catalog tables in db2?

982

Is acct parameter mandatory?

1147

What is parallel sysplex?

758

how do handle file exception/error?

1096

How many minimum number of line codes does PL/1 DB2 program requires?

2928

Explain the difference between getting the system time with eibtime and asktime command?

1039

What are all the divisions of a COBOL program?

1148

How to receive data passed through jcl parm parameter in a natural program?

921

during execution, an rpg/400 program automatically follows a sequence of operations for each record that is processed. The built-in program cycle includes the following logical steps.

1149

What are the different dataset organizations used in vsam?

948

What is difference between rollback and commit?

1095

How do I import data from excel to db2?

1015

What is a ci split? What is a ca split?

1119

State the maximum number of tables that can be joined?

939

Q:HI friends accually ihave one problem plesase let me know the alternate code of this code. Related field description of code: Add a field, CALvsPRD, "Calendar Day Starts Before/After Production Day" to the parameter set WRKORDER which accepts values 'A' or 'B' o B = Calendar Day Starts Before Production Day o A = Calendar Day Starts After Production Day o Any other value indicates the production and calendar dates are always the same. code: Automatic Execution Of *INZSR Subroutine /Z01 * retrieves WRKORDER field values. /Z01 * Calculate default Production Date and return it to caller. /Z01 * Production date defaults to system date /Z01 C Eval P@Pdate = %DATE() /Z01 * unless Calendar date starts Before PDN(production) date and /Z01 * system time is before PDN Start Time then /Z01 * PDN date is yesterday. /Z01 C If W@CALvsPRD = 'B' and /Z01 C %TIME() < %TIME (W@Strtime) /Z01 C Eval P@Pdate -= %Day(1) /Z01 * unless Calendar date starts After PDN date and /Z01 * system time is *GE PDN(production) Start Time then /Z01 * PDN date is tomorrow. /Z01 C ElseIf W@CALvsPRD = 'A' and W@Strtime > *Zero and /Z01 C %TIME() >= %TIME (W@STrtime) /Z01 C Eval P@Pdate += %Day(1) /Z01 C EndIf /Z01 C Eval *InLr = *On

2471

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