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How do you make your BMS maps case sensitive?

IBM,

2 11223

What are the various types of accesses that can be allowed by the SERVREQ option of the DFHFCT?

1 4547

How do you terminate an already issued DELAY command?

IBM,

1 6007

Which is the command used for terminating a browse operation?

IBM,

2 5668

How many conditions can you include in a single HANDLE CONDITION command?

IBM,

5 11366

What is the difference between pseudo-conversational and conversational?

IBM,

2 9511

What is the function of DFHMDF BMS macro?

2 7505

What is a transid and explain the system transid CEMT?

IBM,

1 10885

What is the effect of including the TRANSID in the EXEC CICS RETURN command?

2 9466

Difference between TSQ & TDQ

3 28849

Which is the CICS control program which governs the flow of control among the CICS application

2 7795

What is CEDF?

IBM,

3 11021

What is BMS?

13 23481

Can a program change protected field ?

IBM,

2 15359

What is the name of the log which contains the information needed to restart the system, including the task

2 5287

Un-Answered Questions { MainFrame }

Define sqlca.

1103

What are the information stored in ci?

998

suppose oza017.myorg.emp has 100 records ,oza018.myorg.staff has 200 records but 50 are the common records in both files copy all the common records into oza017.myorg.xyz dataset?

1002

What is comp-1?

954

ther r 2 tables OTTABLE & SALTABLE, add the otamt from OTTABLE to empsal of SALTABLE if eid is matched else add the unmatched from OTTABLE to SALTABLE

2064

What is dynamic transaction backout?

1130

What is the meaning concurrency in the db2 database?

1108

Define a junction record in idms?

834

I have 60 steps in the JCL and want to Execute Only First from PROC by overriding in JCL ?

1836

What is phantom read in db2?

1153

Explain cedf transaction commands?

1140

when is a tag statement used in rpg?

2230

what are the idcams commands that can be used for vsam and explain each of them.

984

why is the declare cursor statement is used for?

1056

I have a subprogram B calling from mainprogram A.I have opened a cursor in A ,Can i fetch the same cursor in subprogram B , If yes , Please explain the reason?

2386

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