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

How do you handle exception in PL/1?

1659

Picture clause of TIME in PL/1?

1 5998

Explain REENTRANT?

1 6303

What are the different options in OPTIONS?

1493

What is meant by REORDER option in PL/1?

1 7889

What is the use of GET LIST and PUT LIST?

1 5247

what is the purpose of OPTIONS(MAIN)?

1 4904

Where PL1 program will be compiled?

1 4612

How we call procedures in PL/1?

1 4344

How space will be adjusted based on size of the field?

1 4463

What is PL/I?

1408

On what systems PL/1 is available?

1574

How can I try out PL/I?

1515

What do the compilers provide?

1431

How did PL/I originate?

1437

Un-Answered Questions { MainFrame }

Can we redefine the field of x(200) to less than 200?

1369

What is the difference between iter and do?

1205

How to index LF by relative record no (RRN)

3290

How to take backup of table in db2?

1072

What do we mean by 'Virtual storage' for a dataset and for a JOBSTEP ? What is the significance of the following statement for a programmer 'Virtual storage results in program addresses being independent of the addresses that actually exist in a computer' ?

2024

Define concatenating?

1100

What is dbrm library?

1049

What is the comaera (communication area)?

1102

How can you access esds files from cics?

1106

What is qsam? How it is used?

737

what is the difference between a return with transid and xctl? For example program. A is issuing return with transid to program b. Program a. Is isssuing xctl to program b?

1186

what is overlay?

1131

For rewrite, why is it mandatory that file needs to be opened?

1105

How can you find out the # of rows updated after an update statement?

1112

how to develop some simple graphs (bar charts) using just html?

1063

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