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 17303

What happens if both JOBLIB and STEPLIB is specified ?

8 16130

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

4 11690

What is the difference between static call & Dynamic call ?

3 14336

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

Patni,

2 13272

How to get cursor position from system in CICS environment ?

8 40568

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

3 7845

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

CitiGroup,

5 33591

What does SYSIN * indicate?

2 8264

What u mean by include statement in JCL ?

3 29163

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

5 15730

What is a COND parameter in JCL?

TCS,

10 64191

How many types of libraries are there in JCL ?

IBM,

2 11556

What you mean by skeleton JCl?

2 14868

Un-Answered Questions { MainFrame }

When reorg is used?

1129

can you please let me know if there is any walkins for COBOL/PLI/DB2/IMS/JCL in pune other than IBM and ITC infotech

2429

What is the pic clause for the hhmmss type of data fields?

941

what is u r recent task in insurence project?..plz tell how to tell this.

3330

Can I cleanly uninstall oorexx?

967

what is the disadvantage of using global variable?

1212

What is iseries database?

1048

Explain the maximum number of pcbs allowed in a psb?

3619

What is the difference between read work file 1 and read work file once? Why we are using work file once?

965

what is the sequence when using cursor?

1222

How do you pull up a query which was previously saved in qmf?

1151

What are types of indexes?

1074

What information does a dbd contain?

1029

How can the disposition of sysout datasets be set for an entire jobstream?

1345

without jcl how to run the batch programs

2534

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