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 happens to a cursor after a commit?

3 10101

What do you do to keep the cursor from closing after a commit?

1 7015

How do you check for a null value in a db2 column?

2 11900

Have you used comp and comp-3 in your project? And how?

IBM,

2530

Why we are using comp and comp-3 in real time projects?

IBM,

4 15357

Have you used the sort in your project?for this type of questions any working on real time project give the eg. with real time scenario.

IBM,

2478

How to code fscode 10 in cobol program? Where yoy code in your pgm?give ans for the question.

IBM,

2 10573

how to check whether the open command of a sequential file is successful? or not?

CSC, IBM,

2 14620

I am Submitting one job in batch that job calls three progams(PGMA, PGMB, PGMC). PGMB should be called after sucessfully completion of PGMA as like for PGMC also. So Can you please tell me how can we do that (without using data area)

CTS,

2 9014

What is use of IMPORT and EXPORT in RPGLE ? What is activation Group ? What is Service Program ???? How to call another program in RPGLE ?

1 12773

when this error ocuurs in openqry file 'OPNID(BANKPF) for file BANKPF already exists.'?

ITC Infotech,

2 10536

how to see the error messages for each command in cl?

CGI,

2 7488

how to restrict upon adding the data for field reference file in DB400

1 4376

can we retrieve dspf source?

2 12326

For AS/400 Freshers good website is

HCL, HP,

3 19247

Un-Answered Questions { MainFrame }

Name the statement which can be used to send data to another mvs jes3 node?

1223

Ap wkur,=p5 where wkur is a label?

1209

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4072

Name the cics command used to access current date and time?

1230

For what purpose steplib and joblib are used ?

1193

What is the difference between plan and package in db2?

1180

what are the reserved words for cics?

1162

What is null indicator in cobol db2?

1119

Why do you need a secondary index in an ims?

1005

Suppose we have one database file and it is used by 5 programs and in 3 program we have to add some records in datbase file s what is the impact on other program?

1984

what is the rpg system?

1340

What do you mean by rollback?

1040

What is commarea (communications area)?

1069

Explain the difference between various read and find statement?

1136

What is commit in db2?

1114

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