MainFrame Interview Questions
Questions Answers Views Company eMail

What do you know about jcl?

617

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

605

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

1 864

What are the divisions in a cobol program?

1 1028

What is the figurative constant in cobol?

1 901

Are you comfortable in cobol or jcl?

614

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

1 1368

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

699

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

550

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

561

What are the prerogatives?

596

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?

1 881

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?

540

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

1 647

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?

567


Un-Answered Questions { MainFrame }

What is dbkey? Explain.

471


What is perform?

517


what is the command used to invoke rlu ?

1122


Have you used the sort in your project?for this type of questions any working on real time project give the eg. with real time scenario.

2028


How do you differentiate between cobol and cobol-ii?

628






Define the attribute byte?

543


Difference Between Call & Sbmjob?

737


Explain the function of the steplib dd statement?

610


Explain how to differentiate call by context by comparing it to other calls?

660


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

597


What is the function of rollback in idms?

505


When is inspect verb is used in cobol?

645


Explain about base register?

584


What is the maximum size of varchar data type in db2?

624


Define acb?

3159