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 a procedure?

1 4975

Can we browse or edit the GDG dataset if it is a tape entry?

4 17296

What happens if both JOBLIB and STEPLIB is specified ?

8 16118

What is order of searching of the libraries in a JCL?

4 11680

What is the difference between static call & Dynamic call ?

3 14332

What are the maximum and minimum sizes of any CONTROL AREA (VSAM datasets) ?

Patni,

2 13270

How to get cursor position from system in CICS environment ?

8 40560

How many parameters are there to a DISP statement and what are their uses ?

3 7838

What is the difference between specifying DISP=OLD and DISP=SHR for a dataset?

CitiGroup,

5 33587

What does SYSIN * indicate?

2 8263

What u mean by include statement in JCL ?

3 29160

The maximum number of in-stream procedure you can code in any JCL is ?

5 15723

What is a COND parameter in JCL?

TCS,

10 64186

How many types of libraries are there in JCL ?

IBM,

2 11551

What you mean by skeleton JCl?

2 14863

Un-Answered Questions { MainFrame }

What is the difference between next sentence and continue in cobol programing language?

1220

What is database alias db2?

1125

Are scope terminators compulsory? If they are, when?

957

what are the three line types in rlu ?

2179

What is the main function of the sign-on table?

1077

What is the use of trt instruction?

1015

the maximum number of subfiles that can defined in a rpg program for one display file is ___ .

3288

Explain the system transid cemt?

1101

How does jcl act on a cobol code?

1182

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

1222

Explain what you understand by passing by value.

1154

What is the difference between Structured COBOL Programming and Object Oriented COBOL programming?

1118

write an RPG program to calculate the marks of 5 students (A,B, C, D, E)in 3 different subjects (eng, math, sci) an display on the screen

1305

What is the physical storage length of time data type?

1127

What is the purpose of having vsam data space?

959

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