MainFrame Interview Questions, Answers for Freshers and Experienced asked in various Company Job Interviews

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MainFrame Interview Questions

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Hi All, Can anyone tell me how we can MOVE value of a X(19) variable to a S9(17) COMP-3 variable? Answer with an Example will be of great help.

EDS,

6 27507

Hi All, how is sign is stored in S9(17) comp-3 variable. Answer with an Example will be of great help.

EDS,

5 15450

What is MDT ? How it is related FSEAT & FRESET? what is the meaning of MDT on.. pls ans With explanation is will be more helpfull thank you

2 13137

if i have 3 fields and i declare IC for all of them .. Then where will the cursor after sending map? pls give explanation (it will be so kind)

CICS,

5 11005

i have the job which has written updated 100 records into the table and for 101th record it got abended and i want to start the job again and should wirte from 101th record not from 1st record..how to do it..?

6 12525

what are the control characters used in reports

1 5480

common jcl abends??

ADP, Wipro,

2 32108

what are extents?

5 16665

what is consistency token

3 19591

if one db2 pgm calls another db2 pgm. how many plans do we need. what r the steps involved..

IBM,

4 10689

can any body give me any website for getting help on mainframe projectts in banking domain.

2106

how to view clusters that has more than 10000 records

2 6082

what is the input to PLAN? what is the input to DBRM?

4 10730

if you have big pgm. during compilation is abends with (soc7)how do you know which line has soc 7 error.

IBM,

4 11079

How to send notification to multiple users through jcl???

8 27268

Un-Answered Questions { MainFrame }

What is the difference between hdam and hidam databases?

1135

Does jcl support automatic restart?

1233

Define the attribute byte?

1161

what does opcode post do ?

1772

What is the mainframe testing? Categorize the mainframe manual testing?

958

How to get the last record in vsam file in cluster? And how can u get the ksds file records into cobol program?

1035

Explain the catalog?

990

Which command can you use to check for the number of records in a physical file?

1319

whats the diff bw the evaluate also and and?

2344

What is data manager?

1050

how can you specify no duplicate key?

1150

how do you round the addition or subtraction of two numbers in assembler? what does the following code do? change process tool(code changes from dev to prd) the changes made to your code should be effected in live. How the process takes place. That is how can you move the code changes from development to production?

1123

What is the maximum number of columns in a db2 table?

1285

What is the difference between plan and package in db2?

1114

In sms datasets, what is the function of the dd mgmtclas keyword?

1385

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