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

What is query for your birthday date should be in hours,minute and seconds format?

1 7898

What will happen when we try to pass data from JCL to COBOL using PARM parameter without declaring the length field in Linkage Section?

IBM,

2 9431

Hi................... I have records like this aaaa cccc bbbb And i want output like this bbbb cccc aaaa How can it possible ?. Note:Please make sure records are in unsorted order. somebody plzzz help me.

1 8885

In cursor program perform para varying until 1 by 1 fetch para cursor------close para in the blank what will come for confirming in the database?

HCL,

1 6344

how do you resolve -805?

HCL,

3 10168

how do u see the output of cics program?

HCL,

4 10634

what is difference between cobol and cobol/400

HCL,

1 22908

In file1 have 80 records are like d1,d2,d3......D80. File2 have 1000records are like a1d1,a1d2,a3d3.....Etc. I want matching records in file3 ? Plse tell me the matching logic???I want answer only in cobol ?Not using any tool or jcl?

CSC,

1 5341

How system will identify whether user wants to create PS or PDS? If answer is SPACE parameter then why we need to pass ps or po as dataset organisation while creation

1 5026

have in 100 records in a file i want to read first 3 records and skip next 3 records and agan i want to read 3 records and again i want to skip 3 records...

ITC Indian Tobacco Company, PNP, TCS,

2 10092

i have n records in one file and in this file there is some fields and i want to count that how many sharma in my file so plz give the coding that how we read sharma ?

2 6753

have in 100 records in a flat file i want to move records like 1,3,5,7,9,11,.. to Output file1 and 2,4,6,8,10,12,14 .. records moved to Output file2..Pls Provide real time answer..

TCS,

5 12851

When we code these comp,comp1,comp-2,comp-3 and comp4 values. I know the differnece.I mean when we will prefer if it is new program.Explain in detail with memory examples. Thanks in advance.

CTS,

1 8432

I have a table(product),It contain fields(productname,cost). I want to retrieve the product name ,which cost is second maximum in the table?

Fidelity,

10 14363

can we use 77 level no for Redefines?if we use give an example?

Mphasis,

3 11160

Un-Answered Questions { MainFrame }

is delete operation supported in an esds? Is rewrite operation possible in esds?

1105

What does the following code do? Ap wkur,=p5 where wkur is a label?

1086

How do you select a row using indexes in db2?

1131

What are the different types of model available in coolplex

1467

What is the maximum number of subfiles that can be specified in a display file?

1910

Mention the way of highlighting as well as putting a cursor to use in a cobol program.

1073

What is the main purpose of having user catalog in vsam?

1052

What is the use of limit sys?

When are scope terminators compulsory?

1031

Explain what is the massinsert option?

1064

how many buffers are allocated to vsam ksds and esds?

1163

What does the 'cemt:cics' transactions do?

1197

in my project..TEST is db2 8.1 version In PROD it is 7.1 if i do REORG in TEST.. can I use the same REORG jcl with out modification in PROD region (this is DB2 8.1 )? if not, what modification i need to do in my REORG control card?

2086

What is the use of jdftval in as400?

1394

What do you understand by jcl?

1043

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