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MainFrame Interview Questions

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Explain the different ways of initiating transaction in cics?

949

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

996

What is the cics command level?

1054

Define an aey9 abend?

1228

Define cebr?

1104

Explain what is a cursor in cics sql processing?

1034

Explain how do you intitiate another transaction?

1066

Explain how can you accomplish breakpoint in intertest?

1030

Explain how would you resolve an asra abend?

989

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?

1034

Explain difference between call and link?

1103

Define floating maps with illustration?

1006

Explain the difference between start and xctl?

1072

What is temporal table in db2?

1041

What does db2 mean?

1017

Un-Answered Questions { MainFrame }

How can the submitting users racf authority be overridden in a job stream?

1265

What is jcl in mainframe?

1201

What is the default access path of a file?

1109

what are all the contents of subfile?

1693

How to find or access the current level of a gdg?

838

What parameter of the job statement is used to limit the cpu time consumed by the job?

1279

what is the use of sflnxtchg?

1262

What does the 'cemt:cics' transactions do?

1204

Can I cleanly uninstall oorexx?

967

when a task suspends all the handle conditions via the push command, how does the task reactivate all the handle conditions?

1177

If an array is multi-dimensional dynamic array how do you deal with it & provide me some examples?

2449

How to create 1 ddm that fetches 3 adabas files simultaneously?

929

Explain the purpose of dd dummy statement?

1221

If you are current on the owner of a set, what is the difference between an obtain next and obtain first in idms?

851

in ways data can be passed to a COBOL program from JCL?

1223

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