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

how can we describe comp sync?

IBM,

1034

what is use of linkage section?

IBM,

1084

what is the meaning of a (new, catlg, keep) disposition mean?

IBM,

1015

what is the meaning, the advantages and which are the types of evaluate statement?

IBM,

1049

can we describe the results of opening for input empty vsam files in a cobol program?

IBM,

1011

what is the meaning of ssrange and nossrange?

IBM,

993

how do we describe static call and dynamic call?

IBM,

1009

suppose I have two tables a and b. Both tables are connected with ssn number as foreign key. I want to retrieve a column data from b table. How will you write a query?

IBM,

963

what is difference between file-aid tool and file-aid utility?

IBM,

1493

which is more efficient, level 77 or 01?

IBM,

1037

what sorting order does search all have?

IBM,

1008

what is the right time for using in-line perform?

IBM,

1042

execution of a subordinate module is caused by the use of the cobol verbs ------------in the superior module

IBM,

1073

suppose oza017.myorg.emp has 100 records ,oza018.myorg.staff has 200 records but 50 are the common records in both files copy all the common records into oza017.myorg.xyz dataset?

IBM,

1000

how can you prevent more than one user from accessing the same transient data queue?

IBM,

1083

Un-Answered Questions { MainFrame }

Explain the function of job statement in jcl?

1206

what is the difference between packed decimal and zoned decimal?

3233

How to run db2 command in windows?

1190

What is the difference between structured cobol programming and object alternativelyiented cobol?

1240

Explain how to ftp the natural program to desktop? (From mainframe to pc), is it possible?

1057

What is the default value(s) for an initialize? What keyword will allow for an override of the default?

1115

What is program reentrance?

1157

what is the role of the is numeric clause?

1090

Explain the maximum number of fields allowed per segment and what is the maximum number of fields per database?

1057

Differentiate between ci split and ca split?

1005

What is perform what is varying?

1161

in which specification the report layout can be defined?

1620

What is distributed relational database architecture? And components?

992

Can level check error occur if we do chgpf?

1250

Yes. Because the alternate key would first locate the primary key, which in turn locates the actual record. Needs twice the number of I/Os.

2413

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