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

COBOL (1072)
JCL (1031)
CICS (755)
DB2 (1122)

IMS (143)
IDMS (107)
Natural (81)
ADABAS (26)

REXX (60)
Assembler (68)
CLIST (6)
QMF (32)

MVS (25)
OS390 (10)
OS 2 (7)
VSAM (319)

IBM MainFrame Interview Questions

Questions Answers Views Company eMail

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

3 18635

Is there any other debugging tool for expeditor?

2 11003

can u run online and batch at the same time?

IBM,

4 10742

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

BEA,

4 27246

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

CitiGroup,

4 20798

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

11942

Why do we have multiple base registers in certain programs?

IBM,

4 13945

what is amp?

3 9972

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

L&T,

1 6610

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

L&T,

5 13641

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

MMM,

1 20380

how to transfer the file from pc to mainframe??

4 9275

how to see the last records in vsam dataset??

1 8184

how to transfer the file from pc to mainframe??

2 19397

how to transfer the file from pc to mainframe??

TCS,

5 16125

Un-Answered Questions { IBM MainFrame }

What are the retrieval sequences in ims db?

1418

by using cursors , we can access particular records from the table based on some condition, i want to delete those selected records, how can we write a query for this in the program?

9375

What is an ims database?

1222

Where & How Do You Code Identifier In Jcl?

1329

How do I delete a table in db2?

1130

what happens if parmparameter passes zero bytes to the program

2185

What is db2 instance?

1167

What is a mainframe?

1025

what are the reserved words for cics?

1160

when you compile a cics program, the (pre) compiler puts an extra chunk of code. Where does it get included and that is it called? What is its length?

1166

How to dsect parameter is used in bms?

1374

can I redistribute oorexx freely with commercial software?

1109

When a COBOL-DB2 program in PRODUCTION is updating main tables and gone for long run, what have to do?

3640

Explain how can an in-stream dataset be terminated?

1419

What is the format of comment statement?

1288

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