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MainFrame Interview Questions

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Explain the different ways of initiating transaction in cics?

903

Explain the difference between temporary storage queue (tsq) and transient data quene (tdq)?

950

What is the cics command level?

996

Define an aey9 abend?

1158

Define cebr?

1035

Explain what is a cursor in cics sql processing?

966

Explain how do you intitiate another transaction?

1018

Explain how can you accomplish breakpoint in intertest?

981

Explain how would you resolve an asra abend?

937

Explain the difference between a package and a plan. How does one bind 2 versions of a cics transaction with the same module name in two different cics regions that share the same db2 subsystem?

990

Explain difference between call and link?

1027

Define floating maps with illustration?

960

Explain the difference between start and xctl?

997

What is temporal table in db2?

994

What does db2 mean?

961

Un-Answered Questions { MainFrame }

Does qtp tool support mainframe application testing?

1026

suppose I have two tables a and b. Both tables are connected with ssn number as foreign key. I want to retrieve a column data from b table. How will you write a query?

932

What is a buffer in memory?

1015

What is null in db2?

958

How do you differentiate between cobol and cobol-ii?

1138

What is the Purpose of Pointer in the string?

1030

What is amode(31)

1115

Explain the difference between comp & comp-3?

913

What are the two ways in which dl/i interface can be invoked?

898

which cl command can be used at program execution to redirect the file named in an rpg program?

1151

Explain path?

948

why icetool be used in programmer view?

2520

Define RCT.

1161

differentiate between sequential files and esds files in vsam?

1119

How do I change the column size in db2?

1097

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