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

What is the EIB (execute interface block)?

IBM,

2 9526

Before issuing an ASKTIME command what will be the values in the EIBDATE and EIBTIME fields ?

1 7624

How do you invoke other programs? What are the pros and cons of each method?

1 4227

What are the beginning and end points of an LUW called?

1 5378

Specify CICS transaction initiation process. (From the perspective of CICS control programs and control tables.)

IBM,

2 10035

How do you set the MDT option to ?ON? status, even if data is not entered?

1 6060

Which of the following are recoverable CICS resources?

IBM,

1 5795

Which is the command that is used to dump the main storage areas related to a task?

IBM,

1 4740

What happens when a CICS command contains the NOHANDLE option?

IBM,

1 8334

Explain the term ?MRO? (Multi Region Operation)?

IBM,

1 8344

What is Quasi-reentrancy?

IBM,

2 8969

What is ASRAABEND in CICS?

IBM,

2 9021

How to get the sign-on user-id from an application program?

1 9443

The DFHCOMMAREA is used to pass information from one application to another. What are some other ways

OBSS, TCS,

7 30036

What are the DB2 steps required to migrate a CICS DB2 program from source code to load module?

3 8680

Un-Answered Questions { MainFrame }

how to display the negative numbers?

2330

What is ment by record level identifier?

1137

can you change the attribute in mapset? if so how?

2129

Apart from opening of a file do we have any other use of USROPN?

1380

Which Search verb is equivalent to PERFORM…VARYING?

1039

is it possible, in the same cgi, to run more than one gethtml or gethtmlifs?

1058

Explain how to build up lu 6.2 communication?

1030

How Many Specs Are There In Rpg & Which Are They?

1099

What does db2 mean?

1013

Explain the maximum of key fields and search fields allowed in a segment?

3206

How to pass data to a program that is coded in an exec statement?

1331

What does reorg do in db2?

1024

Is the primary key a clustered index?

1141

what is the most common way of building queue-id of a tsq?

1083

What is the type of ppt in the cics?

1001

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