MainFrame Interview Questions
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What is open data path? And what is the difference between access path and open data path?

1 1021

How to retrieve a physical file after deleting that?

574

Suppose I have a pf,it contains 5 members,how to access particular member data from logical file ?and what is the use of member in pf?

621

What is the interactive job?

566

Can we concatenate fields in physical file? If yes how can we do?

576

What is the batch job?

564

How to know logical file belongs to which physical file without source?

1 1541

When we create a pf and did not fill up maint parameter, then by default which access path will the system take & why?

554

What is the purpose of dd * statement in jcl?

782

Explain the difference between record occurrence and record type in idms?

490

What is a page in idms?

496

What is a run unit in idms?

486

What is the difference between a schema and a subschema in idms?

1 637

When you are obtaining next within a set and get a end of set return code, on what record are you now current in idms?

456

What is a set in idms? What pointers are required, what are possible? How may sets be ordered?

492


Un-Answered Questions { MainFrame }

How to create a login screen using a command instead of display file.... intention is to get a password field on a command..... how do you achieve this...

1296


What do you mean by CEMT?

756


Define an asra abend?

584


How to test SQL -911 error while developing COB-DB2 program

6684


How to read a pf in reverse(from last record to first) using cl?

588






what is a join logical file?

745


what is meant by object lock requests,held locks and locks waiting to be applied(wrkobjlck) why should we apply for locks.Please explain sir.

5928


Which Search verb is equivalent to PERFORM…VARYING?

670


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

617


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?

581


What do you understand by the term “keyword” with respect to jcl and what is the opposite of the term?

661


how do you know that records are locked?

1127


A chkpt is the parameter coded for multi-volume qsam datasets in a dd statement. When a chkpt is coded as chkpt=eov, a checkpoint is written to the dataset specified in the sysckeov statement at the end of each volume of the input/output multi-volume dataset. State whether true or false?

719


Explain mdt?

649


When we create a pf and did not fill up maint parameter, then by default which access path will the system take & why?

554