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MainFrame Interview Questions

Questions Answers Views Company eMail

Difference Between Ca & Cf?

IBM,

1087

Difference Between Call & Sbmjob?

IBM,

1291

Difference Between Interactive & Batch Job?

IBM,

1236

Difference Between Skip Before & Space Before?

IBM,

1225

Difference Between Source Physical File & Physical File?

IBM,

1072

Explain The Keywords Edtcde & Edtwrd?

IBM,

1399

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

IBM,

1101

In 'o' Specs What Is The Opcode For Write?

IBM,

1206

In Which Specs Arrays, Tables & Constants Are Defined?

IBM,

1171

Space & Skip Are Which Level Keywords?

IBM,

1191

To Add A File To The 'file Selection' Option Of A Query, The Function Key To Be Pressed Is?

IBM,

1218

What Does 'sr' In Columns 7-8 Of C Specs Mean?

IBM,

1 1738

What Does Lokup Does In Tables & Arrays?

IBM,

1272

What Is Default Data Type (if You Define Decimals '0') In Physical File?

IBM,

1 1854

What Is The Difference Between Goto & Exsr?

IBM,

1662

Un-Answered Questions { MainFrame }

What are sqlcodes –803,-805, -811, -818,-904,-911,-913,-101, +100?

1185

Explain how do you control cursor positioning?

1007

Write in brief about clusters?

982

What is a base cluste?

1091

How can you find out the # of rows updated after an update statement?

1113

define the rcvf command?

1721

How do you concatenate the firstname and lastname from emp table to give a complete name?

1075

When The Define Jcl Is Not Available, How Can You Get Information About A Vsam File's Organisation ?

1222

Explain the difference between cics program control table (pct) and cics processing program table (ppt)?

1060

What are the different data types in cobol?

1437

Can you define mapset?

1042

write a jcl to execute a job by 7:00 am on jan 20,1986?

1113

Explain the mdt in cics?

1162

Give the name of some fields form sqlca.

1077

How to read a pf in reverse(from last record to first) using cl?

1121

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