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MainFrame Interview Questions

Questions Answers Views Company eMail

Is it possible to left uncode disp?

1206

State the uses of syspring, sysin, sort fields, sum fields and dummy.

1089

How to submit jcl through a cobol program?

1150

Give the syntax of job specifying jcl statement.

1147

How does jcl act on code(if you take a cobol program)?

1287

How does jcl specify the job to the operating system?

1245

What does a disposition of (new,catlg,keep) for a dsn mean?

1150

What are steplib and joblib? What for they are used?

1229

Is condition checking possible in jcl? If yes, how?

1292

What are steplib and joblib?

1170

Suppose I have five jobs to do. But I want to hold one?

1127

Is it possible to define dd statements as you want?

1115

How to pass data to a program that is coded in an exec statement?

1335

What is job control language?

1093

What is the difference between the positional and keyword parameters? Give examples.

1260

Un-Answered Questions { MainFrame }

Which are the db2 tools to protect integrity of the database?

1122

a set statement is used to define commonly used symbolic across job steps or procedures. It initializes the previous values in the symbolic names. It has to be defined before the first use of the symbolic names in the jcl. State whether true or false?

1087

What is basic difference between directory and pds in ibm mainframe?

1179

Explain the function of the steplib dd statement?

1136

Can we change the password using ALTER? anyone tried and changed?

2021

What is innodb buffer pool?

1055

What is lock escalation in db2?

1033

Explain cedf transaction commands?

1145

1. What is bound-by-call and bound-by-reference? 2. Where and why is *Nomain used? 3. What are the difficulties faced by programmers when using service programs? 4. Explain the different ways of parsing and compiling XML in iSeries.

6515

Explain the difference between intra partition tdq and extra partition tdq?

995

which are the relational operators in rpg?

1131

What is cobol?

1238

what optimum values can we find for freespace, ci etc?

1017

What is bind and rebind in db2?

1139

Explain dbdgen process?

1100

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