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 will happen if you code GO BACK instead of STOP RUN in a stand alone COBOL program ?

Arigo Infotech, IBM,

8 36970

What is the Importance of GLOBAL clause According to new standards of COBOL?

Infosys,

2 13812

What is the file organization clause ?

2 6865

What is an in-line perform ?

Accenture,

4 14812

What R 2 of the common forms of the EVALUATE STATEMENT ?

Cap Gemini,

1 10050

Name some of the examples of COBOl 11?

CSC,

3136

In EBCDIC, how would the number 1234 be stored?

TCS,

2 10470

What are VS COBOL 11 special features?

1 5196

What are options have been removed in COBOL 11?

1 4036

What is the reference modification.

2 10937

How would the number +1234 be stored if a PIC clause of PICTUREs9(4) comp-3 were used?

6 16195

What is an index for tables?

2 6589

What is a subscript ?

3 7548

What is Alternate Index ? How is it different from regular index ?

2 14876

What is CALL statement in COBOL?

4 17153

Un-Answered Questions { MainFrame }

How do I create a view in db2?

1015

Explain the input procedure and output procedure?

906

How to avoid using indicators in ile ?

1266

What is RETURN CURSER LOCATION in subfile?

1565

How to find out the closest prime number of an input number? I believe it has something to do with SEARCH and COBOL Linear Array.

4163

What are the common vsam error conditions and codes?

1073

What is mainframe cics?

1100

to use the rewrite command, how should the vsam file be opened?

1302

what JCL Procedures?

1247

Explain about rct in db2?

1101

How can a jobs execution priority be modified?

1285

I need exexution process for JCL programs

2270

What is the interactive job? What is the batch job? How to change the batch job to interactive job?

992

If i change any file through application after entering data , how to check which file is updated through applications . For call stack we takes esc 3 then we chose 11..But What is answer of below qtn..?

1909

How long have you been working on mainframes?

965

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