MainFrame Interview Questions
Questions Answers Views Company eMail

What is the difference between COMP & COMP-3 ?

2 29501

What was removed from COBOL in the COBOL II implementation?

1686

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 13991

How many sections are there in data division?.

Amdocs, TCS,

10 24824

What is the difference between NEXT SENTENCE and CONTINUE?

Mphasis,

2 12703

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

ABC, IBM, Mphasis, Wipro,

6 23767

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

Complex System, Infosys,

4 34732

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

3 16866

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

IBM, Xansa,

3 35520

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

3 12288

What do you feel makes a good program?

2 5260

What are the different data types available in COBOL?

4 9816

Can JUSTIFIED be used for all the data types?

3 9551

What is the linkage section?

4 7927

What is Static and Dynamic linking ?

3 9901


Un-Answered Questions { MainFrame }

Tell me how many alternate indexes you can have on a dataset?

613


what are different record spacing keywords in rlu ?

1207


What is Pic 9v99 Indicates in COBOL?

722


How can you access qsam (seq) files from cics?

623


without jcl how to run the batch programs

2199






Define floating maps with illustration?

565


Explain the purpose of dd dummy statement?

669


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

568


How to compare two files in SYNCSORT and on the mismatch record should be deleted from second file.

5060


How many sections are there in data division in COBOL?

676


when are the unique constraints executed?

682


What is data structure in as400? What is the use of data structure?

604


Define check constraint.

642


how can you load a vsam data set with records ?

656


A join logical file has how many record formats?

598