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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Hi All, Any idea about AFOper? What i know is that, its an third party monitoring tool for Started Tasks. Any more info..plz update me. Thanks

ACS,

1 6752

How can i execute 5th step without executing first 4 steps?

4 10095

I got user abend U4038 while compiling my runjcl.. can anyone help me?

CGI,

10 55398

i declare a Table as OCCURS 2000 TIMES.If the input file has more than 2000 records will the COBOL program fail?

12 19017

How to use the same cobol program in Batch and CICS onlines ? Please expalin with an example. Thanks in advance.

1 7545

In CICS/VSAM every file that is accessed should be defined in FCT. we have CICS READ, WRITE, BROWSE commands for VSAM files. How does it work with DB2 tables. It know it has to do with the plan. Please expain with examples.

1 4772

i know the stpes 2 create an executable CICS/DB2 cobol code. 1. DB2 Precompiler converts the SQL Statements into COBOL API statements and creates another member with Acess plans. CodeA results in CodeB (code with API calls) & CodeC ( Access Plans ) 2.Code B is compiled/linked 2 create an exceutable.(codeE) 3.Now CodeC is binded to the database on which CodeE will be run. Can somebody provide me the sample JCLs for precompile/compile/link/bind.

2451

How Plan is created while executing the query using SPUFI?

3 8766

what is active directory How to install active directory 2003?

1 3915

what are the options in file-aid to edit vsam dataset and to compare data sets.

Ocwen,

2 11156

how can we pass external data to instream procedures

IBM, Infosys, Ocwen,

5 13896

what is the certification that has a good value for a practioner in mainframes but not habving much knowledge on db2 related stuff?

2 4938

What is difference between Return Code, user completion code, Abend code and reason Code?

IBM, Satyam, Wipro,

2 14761

When you are working with the project after coding what will u do? Like what type of documents u will prepare? How will u do testing?

2 5186

Generally if I want to select the names starting with c I need to use c% But how could I code to select the data which contains % as a part of data.

5 8141

Un-Answered Questions { IBM MainFrame }

What is an instance in db2?

1089

can any one plzzzzzz tell the jcl code for creating ps using idcams

11777

If the stored record is not defined as automatic of a set, how can it be stored as a member of the set?

877

What is maximum displacement?

1266

is there an aix version of oorexx?

1042

Define cobol coding sheet?

1067

What is sqlca’s maximum length?

1252

A dd statement consists of 4 fields. Name them?

1481

What is speed parameters in define cluster command?

1110

Differentiate cobol and cobol-ii. (Most of our programs are written in cobolii, so, it is good to know, how, this is different from cobol)?

1177

How is data passed from a calling program to an assembler called program?

1128

Explain how pa key is different from pf key?

1259

What is the difference between external and global variables in COBOL?

1548

can we view the access paths created by dbrm ? how ? thx

7213

What is a collection in db2?

1097

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