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 GDG? Why do we go for a GDG ? utility used to create GDG?

Xansa,

3 12464

What is a MODEL Paramater in GDG ?

Xansa,

2 8998

GDG Create syntax ?

Xansa,

4 16755

Max generations in GDG??

Xansa,

15 25208

I have 5 generations in my GDG. How do I code in the JCL to consider all the 5 versions of the GDG ?

Xansa,

5 22946

What is SORT ? How do we eliminate duplicate records ? How do I select some records using SORT ?

GE, Xansa,

9 37260

what is XSUM in some fields= none, xsum ??

Xansa,

7 69171

what is reuse parameter ?

Polaris, Xansa,

3 28770

What is VERIFY command ? when do you use this command?? What actually it does ??

Xansa,

2 30533

Create syntax for a VSAM file ?

Xansa,

2 24151

How did you refresh a VSAM file and how frequently you do it ?

CSC, IBM, Patni, Xansa,

3 11806

How do you prepare a COBOL + DB2 program from coading till execution ?

Amdocs, Xansa,

1 10735

what are the frequent DB2 abends did you encounter in your programs ?? What are different SQL abends ??

Xansa,

4 14367

How do you Load a table ?? and what is Load replace ?

Xansa,

2 33687

what is a plan and how do you refer the plan in the program?

Xansa,

2 7329

Un-Answered Questions { MainFrame }

How do I create a view in db2?

1089

Can you define aica abend?

1220

what is the role of the cursor in db2?

1127

Define an asra?

1099

how long does the install of oorexx take?

1074

what is the most common way of building queue-id of a tsq?

1141

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?

1191

Give some examples of command terminators?

1329

how many specifications are there in rpg/400? What are they?

2130

How to define a directory?

1040

how to compare two datasets without using superce because output is limited to 133 bytes

2174

I would like to know some real time questions.. please any one help me.. If the changes made by you .. lead to system inconsistency how others will know its cause???

2196

Can you define spufi?

977

seqence numbers in cobol

3176

What is the use of limit sys?

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