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?

1578

What is the use of DEFINED attribute in DCL statement?

1 5015

What is the difference between DEFINED attribute and LIKE atrribute.

1 5811

What is the difference between bulitin fuction VERIFY and INDEX?

2 5470

What are the CONDITIONS in PL/1?

1 5991

How we can disable the enabled CONDITIONS.

2 5352

What is IBM CLIST (Command List)?

1 3902

What is Time Sharing Option (TSO)?

1 4510

What is Multiple Virtual Storage (MVS)?

1 3571

What is OS/390?

1 2953

How to Execute CLIST?

1 3381

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

1 8798

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 4929

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 5329

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

1465

Un-Answered Questions { MainFrame }

What is the quality process in development?

1156

what is the role of the is numeric clause?

1152

what is the purpose of the indara keyword?

1853

which indicator is used for read?

1201

How many register we are using in mvs?

1093

State the difference between jes2 and jes3?

1073

What does the 'ceci:cics' transactions do?

1169

What is a page in db2?

1085

What is dl/i?

1217

If fspc(100 100) is specified does it mean that both the control interval and control area will be left empty because 100 % of both ci and ca are specified to be empty?

1150

what happens when COND is coded in JOB statement and when COND is coded inside EXEC statement?

1351

Define autostatus in idms?

928

what do you mean by a upgrade set in vsam?

1130

There are 5 fields and 1000 records in a file. Unload it into an array. Write the syntax for declaration and how will you unload it.

1505

What does the 'cebr:cics' transactions do?

1086

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