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MainFrame Interview Questions

Questions Answers Views Company eMail

What do you know about jcl?

1108

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

1064

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

1 1545

What are the divisions in a cobol program?

1 1986

What is the figurative constant in cobol?

1 1646

Are you comfortable in cobol or jcl?

1011

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

1 2259

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

1166

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

978

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

1057

What are the prerogatives?

1045

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 1565

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?

925

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

2 3255

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?

1010

Un-Answered Questions { MainFrame }

can you display a empty subfile?

1199

What is the default access path of a file?

1069

When is inspect verb is used in cobol?

1201

What is an ims database?

1091

ther r 2 tables OTTABLE & SALTABLE, add the otamt from OTTABLE to empsal of SALTABLE if eid is matched else add the unmatched from OTTABLE to SALTABLE

2026

what is the use of unique keyword and what level it is defined?

1556

define data structure?

1695

which of the following operations does not zero the field flda defined as 4,0?

1154

what is cab?

1137

What is an ook-rec in idms?

830

What rules are to be followed while using the corresponding options?

1031

Discuss about db2 bind?

1064

What is dbrm in db2 database?

1065

How many minimum number of line codes does PL/1 DB2 program requires?

2948

what is externally described file ?

1617

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