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MainFrame Interview Questions

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What is the difference between getting the system time with EIBTIME and ASKTIME command?

2 12779

What is the use of a TDQ, TSQ?

IBM,

1 6857

What are extra partition & intra partition TDQs?

IBM,

2 13368

By which CICS defined field can you determine the position of the cursor on the map ?

1 4634

Name three ways the Modified Data Tag can be set on?

IBM,

6 14817

What is the access method used by DB2?

1 5791

How do you handle errors in CICS pgms ?

IBM,

1 6425

Do you receive the attribute byte in the symbolic map?

IBM,

2 9134

Explain the term Transaction routing?

IBM,

1 4363

What is a deadlock?

1 5124

What is the command used to send a map to a terminal?

1 5478

What are the 3 common ways to create maps?

IBM,

1 7739

What is the CICS LOAD command?

IBM,

3 19047

What is a resident program?

IBM,

2 10116

Name some of the common tables in CICS and their usage.

IBM,

1 7747

Un-Answered Questions { MainFrame }

Explain mdt?

1204

How to access db2 tables in mainframe?

1108

How to run my rexx exec?

974

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...

2799

How do you round the addition or subtraction of two numbers in assembler?

1091

What is the actual use of fillers?

1015

how can the same proc be re-used and called by many jobs?

1570

What rules are followed by the search verb.

1200

have you already used rexx - even for limited purposes? Do you need to maintain a high level of productivity during your transition to unix?

1001

How to Save a Query?

1649

What are the 2 types of parameters in dd statement?

1214

how to validate input values in display file ?

1279

What is a mainframe?

1026

what is the maximum number of parameters allowed in rpg?

1823

What is db2 bind process?

1292

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