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

perform I from 0 by 1 until I=5?How maney times it will executes

8 16097

syntax for all WRITE COMMAND in natural language

7 16586

1)how to do date validation in rpg? 2)how to delete dUPLICATE RECORDS?

IBM, Opus,

12 33683

How to resolve SQL Code -310. The db table feild is declared as Decimal(7,2).

IBM, Infosys,

2 33807

A Table feild is declared as Decimal(7,2). I want to insert the decimal in to this column thru cobol-db2 program. How should I declare my local input file variable or any suggestion?

IBM,

7 19500

Can we copy a sequential file to a VSAM file ? If yes, What will happen of the size of the sequential file is bigger than that of the VSAM file?

CTS, Verizon,

3 37065

What does this mean ? GRANT BIND,EXECUTE ON PLAN MK2 TO PUBLIC;

Accenture,

4 20581

1. delete is not possible in esds. why? 2. i have 10 records in a esds file and i want to delete only 1st record ..then what i have to do?.. it will not affect any sequence of the RBA. 3. why open extend is not possible in rrds vsam file?

3 19520

if not using the 'commit' when closing VSAM file,what will happend

CSC,

5 13654

what happend with out using Commit,when closing cursor and program?

CSC,

5 15258

If job is submitted with typerun = hold then how can we submit the same job?

Wipro,

3 15107

THERE IS ONE STEP AS BELOW: //STEPJS060 EXEC PGM=XYX, COND=((200,EQ,JS010),(0,NE,JS020.C),EVEN) COULD ANY ONE EXPLAIN HOW COND PARAMETER WORKS HERE? I AM CONFUSED BECOZ OF "EVEN".

2 8252

There are 5 steps in a Job. How to bypass the first step by making use of only COND Parameter and not using any Restart and IF/THEN/ELSE parameter?

IBM,

11 32139

How many module come in Ibm framework?

IBM,

2042

What is Framework & How it work?

IBM,

2172

Un-Answered Questions { MainFrame }

Explain the significance of rdo?

1144

Explain the function of the dd dcb keyword?

1332

how to define a directory and what is the structure and definition for the same?

1128

Why do we code s9 (4) comp. Inspite of knowing comp-3 will occupy less space?

1220

List down the types of triggers in the db2 database?

1085

what are the differences between and exec cics xctl and exec cics start command?

1302

can anybody post me about file-aid and changemen tools pls and give me reference if any mainframe guys are there

2525

What is buffer pool and list some of them?

1101

SQLCODE = -199, ERROR: ILLEGAL USE OF KEYWORD CHAR, TOKEN KEY was expected

11750

How to connect to db2 database from windows command line?

1149

What is the purpose of dd dummy statement?

1531

records can be read/update/deleted with which file?

1133

How do you reference the following file formats from cobol programs?

1211

Is it possible to obtain a record from IDMS database without mentioning the record-name itself?

1398

1.give the details about WHEN OTHER. 2. how many form are available in evaluate.

2170

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