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

How does one reorg an HDAM IMS database when changing RAPS (Root Anchor Points)?

2 9734

What is the return code you get after a successful IMS call?

4 18052

What do you know about MFS?

2 6677

Which is the DL/I function used in CICS-IMS program?

HP, IBM, IMS,

2 8666

What is a Hierarchy path?

4 8634

What are qualified and unqualified SSA's.

2 18518

Is it necessary that all the segments in a Dl/i database have key fields ?

2 6546

How many sgment types can u have in a DL/I database?

4 8830

consider the following piece of code 01 GROSS-PAY 05 BASIC-PAY PIC 9(5) 05 ALLOWENCES PIC 9(3) if BASIC-PAY has a value 1000 and ALLOWENCES has a value of 250,what will be displayed by the statement DISPLAY GROSS-PAY a.1250 b.01000250 c.01250 d.1.250

TCS,

3 8853

consider two data items 77 W-A PIC 9(3)V99 VALUE 23.75 77 W-B PIC ZZ9V99 VLAUE 123.45 after the statement MOVE W-A TO W-B what will be W-B's value? a.123.75 b.b23.75 (where b indicates space) c.023.75 d.invalid move

TCS,

5 12658

what is the result of the following? DIVIDE A INTO B GIVING C. a.C=A/B b.the reminder of B/A is stored in C c.C=B/A d.the reminder of A/B is stored in C

TCS,

3 14408

which of the following can be used as a check protection symbol a.Z b.S c.* d.+

TCS,

2 8700

what if any ,is the syntex error in the following piece of code 01 B PIC A(7) 02 C PIC 9(4) ........ IF(B NUMERIC) ADD 10 TO C a.the condition in the if statement is wrong b.noting is wrong c.because C is initialised.ADD 10 TO C is wrong d.both B and C shoud have same size.

TCS,

5 9917

study the following code 01 A1 05 B PIC 99 05 C PIC X(4) 01 A2 05 B PIC 99V99 05 C PIC A(4) pick out the valid statement from the following a.A1 and A2 can not have sub-ordinates b.A1 and A2 can have the same sub-ordinates but must have same PIC clause c.there is nothing wrong d.A1 and A2 can have same sub-ordinates provided they are not at 01 level

TCS,

4 8630

study the following 01 A PIC 99V0 VALUE 5 01 B PIC 9V9 VALUE 6 01 C PIC 99V9 VALUE 2.5 01 D PIC 99 VALUE 3 COMPUTE A ROUNDED B C = A+B*C/D ON SIZE ERROR PERFORM PRINT-ERROR the comments of A.B.C after execution of the above statement are a.A=10 B=0 C=10 b.A=10 B=9.9 C=9.9 c.A=10 B=0 C=9.9 d.A=10 B=6 C=10

TCS,

4 9258

Un-Answered Questions { MainFrame }

how do you create an alternate index ?

1070

Why we have multiple data types in As400 and why we use numeric, packed, decimal, zoned the basic difference between this?

1123

is it compulsory commitment control in journal?

2478

Can you define transid?

1023

How to define a vsam file in cics getting into cics to define a vsam file.

1168

what is join logical file?

1889

What are the contents of a dclmgen?

1129

What are the different types of PL/1 files?

2174

Explain the function of job statement in jcl?

1211

the dfhcommara is used to pass information from one application to another. What are some other ways that this function can be accomplished?

1155

what sort card you will use to copy the data from one dataset to another dataset?

1229

Is ibm db2 free?

1014

Explain mdt?

1135

Suppose you are processing an input file in a natural program and you want the program to fail if the file is empty. What command you use in natural to force it to fail?

1076

Explain the difference between tsq and tdq

991

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