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 is COND=ONLY ?

2 16267

What are the basic JCL Statements for a Job?

1 5569

What does the statements: typrun=scan and typrun=hold do in a JCL statement

2 23292

Which is the most widely used batch performance monitor for DB2?

2 7130

What are the valid DSORG values ?

3 27256

What are the differences between JES2 & JES3 ?

4 33876

What are the causes for S0C1, S0C4, S0C5, S0C7, S0CB abends ?

Tesco,

11 235427

What is DATACOM db?

2 15313

What is a Dummy Utility and what it does ?

3 16261

What 3 guidelines do we have to follow when concatenating DD statements?

3 10198

On the DD statement, what is the main difference between creating a new sequential flat file and a partitioned dataset?

2 8757

What is the difference between IEBGENER, IEBCOPY and REPRO in IDCAMS utility?

Accenture, TCS,

8 85836

What is the difference between catalogue procedure and In-Stream procedure?

2 19955

What do you feel makes a good program?

1 5405

What is the error code SOC01 indicate ?

Microsoft,

5 23837

Un-Answered Questions { MainFrame }

What is Framework & How it work?

2126

How do I delete a table in database?

1022

what do you mean by a upgrade set in vsam?

1073

Can you define attribute byte?

1027

When you specify multiple datasets in a JOBLIB or STEPLIB, what factor determines the order?

1463

What will be the result if on size error phrase is declared?

955

What is the use of mdt (modified data tag)?

1052

how can you detect overflow for a print program that prints multiple lines per cycle?

1725

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

837

How do you simulate the explain of an embedded sql statement in spufi/qmf?

1092

What is the difference between bind and rebind in db2?

1453

What is the distinction amongst include and copy?

980

how many buffers are allocated to vsam ksds and esds?

1167

in a jcl, a large volume dataset is loaded to a table using bmcload in step1 and an image copy of the loaded table is taken using bmccopy in step2. Step2 abends because the image copy dataset cannot hold the volume of the table. How can this be rectified?

1299

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

1223

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