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 do you set a return code to the JCL from a COBOL program?

4 29427

What is the significance of 'above the line' and 'below the line'?

Nokia,

2 9030

What is level 66 used for ?

TCS,

3 15176

How do you sort in a COBOL program? Give sort file definition, sort statement syntax and meaning.

CGI, TCS,

7 28820

What do you do to resolve SOC-7 error?

Sun Life, Wipro,

2 13255

What compiler option would you use for dynamic linking?

2 9330

What guidelines should be followed to write a structured Cobol program?

1 4930

What is the purpose of Identification Division?

1 5840

How can I tell if a module is being called DYNAMICALLY or STATICALLY?

CTS,

3 14040

In the JCL, how do you define the files referred to in a subroutine ?

2 10754

COMP field occupy ?

2 8287

for an INITIALIZE and what keyword allows for an override of the default.

2 6001

What are the steps you go through while creating a COBOL program executable?

3 10789

What are some examples of command terminators?

1 8822

Why occurs can not be used in 01 level ?

TCS,

2 9605

Un-Answered Questions { MainFrame }

How does the jcl specify the job to os?

1145

What will happen if both steplib and joblib are specified?

1021

Explain the difference between lds and esds?

1028

What is maximum displacement?

1171

How do you define a variable of comp-1 and comp-2?

1197

How many bytes will a s9(8) comp field occupy ?

1120

how to access the file from prodution from changeman tool and to submit a file to production

7533

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

1145

Suppose there are 2 Input files Infile-1 and Infile-2. Both the Files contain Employee Records. You need to compare both the files and Write the Common Records in third file named Outfile. How can we do this using File-Aid?

2751

how to declare a constant variable in the freeformat?

1396

Explain about area currency?

843

what is the panel name of ispf primary option menu?

1142

Tell me what type of files we can process thru file-aid?

930

How to handle exceptional conditions in cics?

1126

can we use ASCII ,CDUP,SENDPASV commands in SFTP?

3659

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