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 6043

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

1 6268

What is 88 level used for ?

2 17010

How do we get current date from system with century?

2 10872

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

TCS,

3 20422

Can the OCCURS clause be at the 01 level?

2 6797

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

IBM, RBS,

2 20268

How may divisions are there in JCL-COBOL?

IBM,

5 18790

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

IBM,

1 13969

How is sign stored in a comp-3 field?

7 22753

What does the IS NUMERIC clause establish ?

2 14072

What are the differences between COBOL and COBOL II?

CSC,

1 7944

Name the divisions in a COBOL program ?

7 17439

How can you submit a job from COBOL programs?

ITC Infotech,

2 12268

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

3 9748

Un-Answered Questions { MainFrame }

What are the retrieval sequences in ims db?

1356

What is adabas?

1021

Differentiate between PCT and FCT.

1180

Hi, i would like to start a new carrier in DB2 DBA.Which and what all step should i have to take..?

3157

how do you reference the esds vsam file formats from cobol programs

1216

Define communication area?

994

what is service program?

1036

How to rename a table in DB2 ?

1088

how can I tell when to replace the array?

1214

how do we describe cataloged procedure and an instream procedure?

1083

Name and explain the location modes?

892

What is cobol?

1238

What are the different data types in cobol?

1441

Explain how to find occurrence of mu and pe fields in a file?

931

name the utility program closely associated with vsam?

1045

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