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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What tools are available in PL/1?

1525

What is the use of DEFINED attribute in DCL statement?

1 4925

What is the difference between DEFINED attribute and LIKE atrribute.

1 5735

What is the difference between bulitin fuction VERIFY and INDEX?

2 5356

What are the CONDITIONS in PL/1?

1 5908

How we can disable the enabled CONDITIONS.

2 5219

What is IBM CLIST (Command List)?

1 3816

What is Time Sharing Option (TSO)?

1 4432

What is Multiple Virtual Storage (MVS)?

1 3502

What is OS/390?

1 2882

How to Execute CLIST?

1 3302

what is the difference between implicit and explicit scope terminator with example?

1 8697

How to implement function keys in cics ...Interview ask me there is requirement to include two function key in the program F1 and F2 Keys...when F1 key is press record should be inserted into database after reading the input file and when F2 is press ,record should be updated in databased...explain about the entire process including testing also..?please expain in step by step ?

HeadStrong, Polaris,

1 4865

There is map and length of field need to modified, let take cust id=2 is previous of 2 byte and now it has to be 5 byte ? how to modified the cics code ?what are change need to done ? where where u will do change ?

3 5197

What is the advantages of using IDMS compared to other database systems?

1392

Un-Answered Questions { MainFrame }

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

2070

What does a cics translator do?

1438

How many ways are there for initiating a transaction?

1050

Add a field to screen when what's the flow of impact?

2914

Explain the difference between and exec cics xctl and an exec cics link command?

1117

We have job which is running as batch. It takes atleast 06 hours to complete tht job. But I wanna do tht job with in 3 hours?

1250

what is a query can be run in which mode?

1312

What are packages in db2?

1023

Define ceci?

1107

Can I combine uni-REXX with a compiled language in my application? What application programming interfaces are available? For example, can I share variables between uni-REXX and a compiled language?

904

i want new rexx tool which will perform jcl chk without submitting it

2090

which type of object is used in db2/400?

1057

Every map is categorized into multiple fields, and there are three common working storage fields present for each of these respective fields. Mention those?

1061

Explain how can an in-stream dataset be terminated?

1326

what are the common errors that occured while programming in AS/400?

1533

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