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?

1486

What is the use of DEFINED attribute in DCL statement?

1 4829

What is the difference between DEFINED attribute and LIKE atrribute.

1 5670

What is the difference between bulitin fuction VERIFY and INDEX?

2 5274

What are the CONDITIONS in PL/1?

1 5816

How we can disable the enabled CONDITIONS.

2 5106

What is IBM CLIST (Command List)?

1 3719

What is Time Sharing Option (TSO)?

1 4331

What is Multiple Virtual Storage (MVS)?

1 3404

What is OS/390?

1 2799

How to Execute CLIST?

1 3209

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

1 8596

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 4772

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 5050

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

1359

Un-Answered Questions { MainFrame }

A join logical file has how many record formats?

1070

If you are current on the owner of a set, what is the difference between obtain next and obtain first?

1247

what is the purpose of the indara keyword?

1692

What is a continuation triple?

Explain host variables?

952

what are the various stages of job processing?

1243

How to create a link between multiple maps in a mapset?

In the EIB block of CICS, highlight the names of few of the important fields?

983

What Is The Object Type Of Pf, Lf, Printer File & Display File?

1117

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?

1052

Is db2 a mainframe database?

954

which utility is used a dummy utility?

1405

A table has two indexes defined. Which one will be used by the SEARCH?

1240

the maximum number of subfiles that can defined in a rpg program for one display file is ___ .

3209

what are the important factors in error message subfile ?

971

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