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

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IBM MainFrame Interview Questions

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One program calling 5 subprograms, its a cobol db2 program, after precompilation how many plans and packages will created?

3 18500

Is there any other debugging tool for expeditor?

2 10872

can u run online and batch at the same time?

IBM,

4 10592

How to rename one vsam file as well as it's index?

BEA,

4 27092

How to rename a VSAM file as well as it's index file?

CitiGroup,

4 20599

What it does If we specify TYPRUN=P & it is not substituted by SCAN 0r HOLD in VALUE SET.

11870

Why do we have multiple base registers in certain programs?

IBM,

4 13795

what is amp?

3 9831

Can we use COND=EVEN on a job card, when jobs are scheduled through scheduler?

L&T,

1 6530

Can we use COND=EVEN on a job card, when jobs are scheduled through scheduler?

L&T,

5 13450

how to resolve the file status 47.......

MMM,

1 20236

how to transfer the file from pc to mainframe??

4 9112

how to see the last records in vsam dataset??

1 8096

how to transfer the file from pc to mainframe??

2 19291

how to transfer the file from pc to mainframe??

TCS,

5 15892

Un-Answered Questions { IBM MainFrame }

suppose I have two tables a and b. Both tables are connected with ssn number as foreign key. I want to retrieve a column data from b table. How will you write a query?

975

Explain the function of dd name parameter with a 2 part structure; audit.report?

1456

Define cedf?

963

What is check constraint in db2?

1091

What are fset, frset?

1014

What is ibm db2 connect?

1002

How to alter the parameters for the existing gdg?

1204

What is table space in db2?

1019

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

2112

how do you reference the printer file formats from cobol programs

1219

What is the advantage of dynamic generation of acb?

934

what are the differences between temporary storage queue (tsq) and transient data quene (tdq)?

1227

What is multi row fetch in db2?

1052

Using alternate indexes in batch program?

1112

Explain about logical data model of idms?

882

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