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MainFrame Interview Questions

Questions Answers Views Company eMail

What is the EIB (execute interface block)?

IBM,

2 9689

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

1 7747

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

1 4338

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

1 5453

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

IBM,

2 10161

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

1 6142

Which of the following are recoverable CICS resources?

IBM,

1 5893

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

IBM,

1 4825

What happens when a CICS command contains the NOHANDLE option?

IBM,

1 8422

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

IBM,

1 8479

What is Quasi-reentrancy?

IBM,

2 9098

What is ASRAABEND in CICS?

IBM,

2 9131

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

1 9535

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

OBSS, TCS,

7 30282

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

3 8804

Un-Answered Questions { MainFrame }

List the type of locks?

988

Name the versions of ibm mainframes have introduced in the market?

1033

by using cond parameter maximum 8 cond can be coded in single cond means ?explain

1535

Where can you declare a cursor in a cobol-db2 program?

1150

What Does Lokup Does In Tables & Arrays?

1351

What is rmode(24)

1201

IF I mention stop run in CICS what happens?

2434

Explain the difference between a package and a plan. How does one bind 2 versions of a cics transaction with the same module name in two different cics regions that share the same db2 subsystem?

1101

What are the different types of base tables?

1174

Explain processing program table(ppt)?

1217

What the difference is between continue and next sentence?

1227

Are there any set of rules for the names of the steps used in a job?

1180

What are fillers?

1107

Give the name of some fields form sqlca.

1149

input= ,,,, mainframe training ,,, hyderabad .... location.... output1=$ mainframe training in hyderabad location$ output2=**** mainframe training in hyderabad location ****. In this pgn when we give input considering the spaces the output is displayed in this format.Like in the place of ,,,, $ should be displayed likewise.So please helpmeout.

2298

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