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MainFrame Interview Questions

Questions Answers Views Company eMail

What do you know about jcl?

1141

Why did you choose to work with ibm mainframe cobol programming?

1107

What are the divisions in a cobol program? Which one is the mandatory division among them?

1 1609

What are the divisions in a cobol program?

1 2074

What is the figurative constant in cobol?

1 1728

Are you comfortable in cobol or jcl?

1049

How you can delete a record from a ps file in cobol?

1 2312

How to get the last record in vsam file in cluster? And how can you get the kids file records into your cobol program?

1209

How to get the last record in vsam file in cluster?

1018

Mention the length of physical storage of the given data types of db2 – date, timestamp, time

1077

What are the prerogatives?

1080

How to initialize a variable which is a constant in a lda. Suppose I want to declare a variable #a n1(1:7) having constant values as 1,2,3,4,5,6, and 7 for respective occurance then how can we do that?

1 1625

Suppose if I have updated few fields of adabas file using update command, and after that I used display to see that field get updated or not. If in display it showing nothing or record did not get updated then what can be the possible reasons?

949

How to search particular records from the database file in rpg?

2 3328

Pose, there are 100 records in the file.i need to retrieve all the records matching/equal to the particular name field. How can we do the above using search criteria other than using the if cond?

1050

Un-Answered Questions { MainFrame }

What are Naming Conventions in QMF?

1824

What do you mean by CEMT?

1240

Explain the difference between a physical bms mapset and a logical bms mapset?

999

What is db2 bind process?

1240

OPEN INPUT StudentFile READ StudentFile AT END SET EndOfStudentFile TO TRUE END-READ PERFORM UNTIL EndOfStudentFile DISPLAY StudentId SPACE StudentName SPACE CourseCode SPACE YOBirth READ StudentFile AT END SET EndOfStudentFile TO TRUE END-READ END-PERFORM CLOSE StudentFile STOP RUN what will be output

2511

Where the QTEMP library will get created? if the the answer is QSYS, then howcome more than one job can create same library name(QTEMP) in QSYS? what is the uniqueness of QTEMP? For example, run the below command in different workstation WRKOBJ QSYS/QTEMP And take 8 in the option to check the description. both will have different info. so where(which LIB) exactly the QTEMP is stored?

8611

What is sqlca?

1076

What is the picture clause of null indicator variable?

1138

How to find the number of rows in db2 tables?

1073

What is the comaera?

1258

What is meant by idd in idms?

936

What is qsam?

837

hi guys i am new for sqlrpgle, please suggest me good websites and theory and coding. plz plz its very urgent.

2563

What is bmp mode?

3541

How many databases can be created inside an instance in db2 ?

1035

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