MainFrame Interview Questions, Answers for Freshers and Experienced asked in various Company Job Interviews

IBM MainFrame (5234)
IBM AS400 (1355)
IBM PL/1 (31)

MainFrame Interview Questions

Questions Answers Views Company eMail

The read of a record from an Intrapartition TDQ is not destructive(True or False).

1 5193

What is the EXEC CICS HANDLE ABEND?

IBM,

2 15286

What are the databases that CICS can access?

1 4429

Where are transient data sets defined to CICS?

4 10414

What will happen, if an out-of-range or negative value is specified in the LENGTH option of the SEND

1 6241

What option is specified in the SEND command to send only the unnamed fields on to the screen?

IBM,

1 5606

What is the function of the Terminal Control Table(TCT)?

1 9049

What is the use of DCT?

IBM,

2 7687

Name some important fields in the EIB block ?

IBM,

2 7932

Into which table is the terminal id registered?

2 6814

What is trigger level in the context of TDQs?

IBM,

2 6296

What is the command for reading a record form a TSQ?

3 24986

What CICS facilities can you use to save data between the transactions?

IBM,

1 6250

How do you execute a background CICS transaction ?

1 7945

How do you dynamically set the CURSOR position to a specific field?

3 12085

Un-Answered Questions { MainFrame }

What is sort?

947

Explain how can the attributes of one sms dataset be copied to another dataset?

1210

What is dbid used in adabas?

941

How do you handle exception in PL/1?

1656

specify the requirements for automatic task initiation. (Mention the control table, it is entries and the corresponding procedure division cics command).?

1150

how do you define an altindx ? How do you use altindxs in batch, cics programs?

1067

Is db2 a database?

958

There is one string as A B C and wanted to display string as Shri A Shri B Shri C, how we can do this in sql? If we have around 100 values in string like this, each value should be displayed with initials as Shri.

1177

Why do we need integrated cics translator?

1052

If a (+1) generation dataset is created in the first step of a job, how can it be referenced in later steps of the same job for input?

1303

Which dd parameters are required?

1181

Define clustered index?

962

What is file access opcodes?

1354

can I touch the array during treatments?

1171

Explain in brief how does db2 determine what lock-size to use?

1035

For More Un-Answered { MainFrame } Questions Click Here