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 the use of EVALUATE statement?

Tesco,

4 10726

What is the difference between a binary search and a sequential search?

3 8742

What is an in line PERFORM? When would you use it? Anything else to say about it?

4 9387

Difference between next and continue clause

Kanbay,

4 9828

What divisions, sections and paragraphs are mandatory for a COBOL program?

Arigo Infotech,

8 26994

What is the mode in which you will OPEN a file for writing?

4 12941

What is the difference between static call & Dynamic call?

CSC, TCS,

2 9040

What is 77 level used for ?

IBM, iGate,

12 65946

What is report-item?

IBM,

1 7019

What is the difference between SEARCH and SEARCH ALL? What is more efficient?

IBM, iFlex, Wipro,

9 34893

How do you code Cobol to access a parameter that has been defined in JCL?

3 9591

What is the different between index and subscript?

3 8459

What is Comm?

IBM, Kemper Corporation,

2 7790

COMP-3 field occupy ?

8 20669

What is the difference between a subscript and an index in a table definition?

TCS,

3 11127

Un-Answered Questions { MainFrame }

What is the difference between local and central version operating modes?

1314

define a output queue?

1590

can anybody help me to solve this problem. the program that i m checking display error message saying "Record format for file AJDSPFFD does not match model file and decimal error. how to solve this problem. The AJDSPFFD is snapshot the AJTLOG that is the audit trail list.

2801

Explain the difference between and exec cics xctl and an exec cics link command?

1117

Let us say you have a collection of multiple maps in cics. So if you are asked to determine the exact storage space that is available in a symbolicmap, then how will you compute it?

1136

What is precompiler in db2?

1022

during execution, an rpg/400 program automatically follows a sequence of operations for each record that is processed. The built-in program cycle includes the following logical steps.

1222

What r the comman abends in db2, jcl and cobol???????

2254

Can I cleanly uninstall oorexx?

967

Can you explain multitasking and multithreading?

1152

Interviewer asked me write down DDS for load all subfile .can anybody write dds

1729

how do we describe static call and dynamic call?

1012

What is db2 look?

1024

How many sections are there in data division in COBOL?

1135

How do I optimize a query in db2?

1101

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