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 difference between COMP & COMP-3 ?

2 30931

What was removed from COBOL in the COBOL II implementation?

2128

What will happen if you code GO BACK instead of STOP RUN in a stand-alone COBOL program i.e. a program which is not calling any other program ?

3 15649

How many sections are there in data division?.

Amdocs, TCS,

10 28362

What is the difference between NEXT SENTENCE and CONTINUE?

Mphasis,

2 14245

Can you REWRITE a record in an ESDS file? Can you DELETE a record from it?

ABC, IBM, Mphasis, Wipro,

6 26961

What is the maximum length of a field you can define using COMP-3?

Complex System, Infosys,

4 37466

How do you define a variable of COMP-1? COMP-2?

3 18125

What is the difference between comp and comp-3 usage? Explain other COBOL usage?s.

IBM, Xansa,

3 37276

Explain the difference between an internal and an external sort, the pros and cons, internal sort syntax etc.

3 13485

What do you feel makes a good program?

2 6304

What are the different data types available in COBOL?

4 11380

Can JUSTIFIED be used for all the data types?

3 10815

What is the linkage section?

4 9921

What is Static and Dynamic linking ?

3 11331

Un-Answered Questions { MainFrame }

does anybody know about niit technologies ? how is that company ? any body working in that company ? please answer my question.I got selected in NIIT Technologies delhi.

2996

In COBOL programming, what is PERFORM? What is VARYING?

1140

which of the following operations does not zero the field flda defined as 4,0?

1182

which are the relational operators in rpg?

1118

Mention the location where the output received from explain statement is stored.

1120

what is the purpose of data structure?

1734

explain the information contained in ci

1010

What is a db2 package?

1047

Mention some fields that are a part of sqlca.

1014

how do I play {insert rpg system here}?

1032

Explore the syntax of the evaluate statement?

945

How can a stopped job be started again?

1188

What is eib?

1152

how can I automatically refresh a web page?

1055

How does control intervals and control areas related to each other?

999

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