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 15866

syntax for all WRITE COMMAND in natural language

7 16295

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

IBM, Opus,

12 33221

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

IBM, Infosys,

2 33633

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 19178

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 36887

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

Accenture,

4 20418

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 19380

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

CSC,

5 13422

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

CSC,

5 15026

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

Wipro,

3 14934

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 8137

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 31680

How many module come in Ibm framework?

IBM,

1991

What is Framework & How it work?

IBM,

2125

Un-Answered Questions { MainFrame }

What are the cobol coding sheets?

1269

Hello, I have 3 years of exp as a mainframes tester in a leading IT company, now am looking to change my company. Could you please let me know, what are the interview questions/topics i should prepare. Your suggestions are truly valuable for me :) Thanks !!

1940

Can you explain referential integrity?

1000

Explain storage architecture of idms.

844

how can a message from a message file appear as a constant on the screen?

1593

what is the responsibility of the construction superintendent

2145

What is the difference between fixed length and variable length records?

874

What is a SSRANGE and NOSSRANGE?

1468

How can values be passed from the job stream to an executable program?

1441

what is join logical file?

1889

Pose, there are 100 records in the file.i need to retrieve all the records matching/equal to the particular name field. How can we do the above using search criteria other than using the if cond?

1050

What are the different data types in cobol?

1440

What are the full forms of spufi and dclgen and why are they used?

1087

How to remove 2 duplicate records and copy only one using job control language?

1219

what are members?

1057

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