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 an AICA abend?

IBM, Xansa,

3 33332

What is CEBR?

IBM,

3 15358

Can you have CICS code in a copybook? If yes, what happens during compilation?

IBM,

3 14347

How is the storage determined in the symbolic map, if you have multiple maps?

IBM, Wipro,

2 8963

Which is the program which determines whether a transaction should be restarted ?

1 5975

How do you access the records randomly in TSQ ?

IBM,

2 13440

In an on-line environment, how can you prevent more than one user from accessing the same Transient Data Queue at the same time?

IBM,

2 9378

Mention the option used in the CICS READ command to gain accessibility directly to the file I/O area.

2 8514

What is the content of the PPT entry?

CTS, IBM,

3 13395

What will happen if the TDQ that you want to delete is not in the DCT?

2 10282

What is the ABEND command and when would you use it?

IBM,

2 9245

What are different system tables used in CICS?

IBM,

1 13522

What is the difference between link xctl?

IBM, MBNA,

8 45118

What is the difference between a package and a plan?

Infosys, L&T, Mphasis,

6 51279

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?

2 7586

Un-Answered Questions { MainFrame }

What is the function of dbctl?

1117

How jcl is used for testing batch programs?

1277

What is report-item in COBOL?

1151

What is the use of the eibaid field?

1142

what do you mean by recovery and speed parameters in define cluster command?

1103

what is the purpose of the verify function of idcams?

1054

what are bind concepts in db2 cobol?

1090

Difference between cobol and cobol-ii?

1268

how we sort two input files based on a common column and giving one o/p file please send me the coding logic?

2128

How to find out the closest prime number of an input number? I believe it has something to do with SEARCH and COBOL Linear Array.

4163

I have physical file with 100 records,there is no any duplicate records in this pf.based on this pf one logical file I have used.but this lf is viewing only 80 records only of that pf?what is the reason for this?

1105

What is the syntax of JCL statement?

1230

What is condition checking in jcl? Is this possible?

1114

what sort card you will use to copy the data from one dataset to another dataset?

1218

explain how do you define a gdg in vsam?

1023

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