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

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MainFrame Interview Questions

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If there is no row in Emp table with Ename as Raghava and you run the below queries in SPUFI. 1.select Ename from EMP wher Ename = 'raghava' 2.Select count(*) from EMP where Ename = 'raghava' What is SQLCODE shown up in SPUFI

ADP,

4 10180

What is STACK in Natural? How we can use it in Program? Give me Eg.?

IBM,

2 14927

what is the use of cursors?

iGate,

3 7428

For update of a row in cursors, when do we move value into host variable in cobol progrm? is it before open or before fetch ?

iGate,

2 8428

What is Control Break processing ?

iGate,

1 10153

why subproc not run in dftactgrp?????/plz explain

CSC,

2 7949

what is *place and *auto keyword in prtf ?plz explain

CSC,

3162

How can we extract data from IMS DB and load it onto oracle database by converting it.Pls someone help me

TCS,

2 5250

Without using move verb how to move one variable to another.

5 14106

what is batch debug in as400?

3 11530

What are the types of performs in COBOL? How does perform thru work, give example.

2 7575

Given below code, find the value of 'x'. Perform s001-x thru s001-y. s001-x. add 1 to x . s001-1x. ------- . s001-y. perform s001-1y 10 times . s001-1y. perform s001-2y 10 times . s001-2y. perform s001-x 10 times .

1 4570

What are the CICS tables? How to traverse from one screen (program) to another on CICS?

1 6791

what is the job entry system used in your project?

3 7320

This was on MQseries. What does MQ queue Manager do? what are the different types of queues? do you know about remote queues etc. How do you delete records from queues? how do you empty queues?

1 4449

Un-Answered Questions { MainFrame }

Suppose there are 2 Input files Infile-1 and Infile-2. Both the Files contain Employee Records. You need to compare both the files and Write the Common Records in third file named Outfile. How can we do this using File-Aid?

2759

How does a cursor work?

989

What rules are to be followed while using the corresponding options?

1071

give an eg of ACQ-(ACQUIRE),BIT OFF,BIT ON,DEALLOC,DUMP,FEOD,FORCE,MHHZO,MHLZO,MHLLZO,MLHZO,REL,RESET,TESTZ,TESTB,TESTN----GIVE SMALL EXAMPLE TO THE OPCODES...TO UNDERSTAND FUNCTIONING...........

3833

Explain about base register?

1057

Explain the difference between and exec cics xctl and exec cics start command?

1149

What is jcl in mainframe?

1201

What is runstats and reorg in db2?

1304

If my rpg program has a date field, what extra care I have to take while compiling that rpg program? If the file is keyed and I have declared the file as well as key list properly in my program. Still am getting an error message like "chain/reade operation is not allowed" what may be the case?

1114

How is next sentence and continue different?

983

How can an in-stream dataset be terminated?

1342

What is idms-restart ?

1485

What is the LINKAGE SECTION used in COBOL?

1530

can any one plzzzzzz tell the jcl code for creating ps using idcams

11665

How to add 99 menu (page down) option in menu creation..

2365

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