MainFrame Interview Questions, Answers for Freshers and Experienced asked in various Company Job Interviews

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MainFrame Interview Questions

Questions Answers Views Company eMail

What care has to be taken to force program to execute above 16 Meg line?

1 6037

What COBOL construct is the COBOL II EVALUATE meant to replace?

1 6248

What is 88 level used for ?

2 16995

How do we get current date from system with century?

2 10854

If you were passing a table via linkage, which is preferable - a subscript or an index?

TCS,

3 20388

Can the OCCURS clause be at the 01 level?

2 6784

What is the maximum size of a 01 level item in COBOL I? in COBOL II?

IBM, RBS,

2 20237

How may divisions are there in JCL-COBOL?

IBM,

5 18750

What are the differences between OS VS COBOL and VS COBOL II?

IBM,

1 13951

How is sign stored in a comp-3 field?

7 22702

What does the IS NUMERIC clause establish ?

2 14054

What are the differences between COBOL and COBOL II?

CSC,

1 7922

Name the divisions in a COBOL program ?

7 17412

How can you submit a job from COBOL programs?

ITC Infotech,

2 12249

What is the point of the REPLACING option of a copy statement?

3 9722

Un-Answered Questions { MainFrame }

What are the types of important programs that are used in the cics?

1026

What is the procedure to solve an ASRA ABEND?

1032

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

1044

How do I change the column size in db2?

1151

Explain the meaning of spufi?

1033

What is declare cursor?

1110

How dummy is used in jcl?

1145

How joinkeys helps in sort?

984

What is null value in db2?

1016

What is the difference between copybooks and subprocedures in as400?

1356

Can anyone provide me the source code for LOC(lines of code) counter written in REXX language which can run on IBM mainframe z/OS V1R4. The LOC counter should be able to count the comments,lines of code,blank lines in a COBOL program and JCL's

2659

Define exec cics retrieve?

1173

What do the compilers provide?

1426

What is bind plan?

1043

My program has an array defined to have 10 items. Due to a bug, I find that even if the program access the 11th item in this array, the program does not abend. What is wrong with it?

1066

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