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 6664

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

4 9849

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

CGI,

10 54967

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

12 18539

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

1 7439

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 4674

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.

2385

How Plan is created while executing the query using SPUFI?

3 8631

what is active directory How to install active directory 2003?

1 3843

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

Ocwen,

2 10986

how can we pass external data to instream procedures

IBM, Infosys, Ocwen,

5 13680

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

2 4821

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

IBM, Satyam, Wipro,

2 14629

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 5033

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 7949

Un-Answered Questions { IBM MainFrame }

Can we move alphanumeric incentive to the numeric field?

1042

Explain about LMQUERY�give a dialog information about a data set

1444

What do you mean by monitor block?

1855

how to move the records from file to array table. give with code example

2673

When do you get -811 sqlcode and how to resolve it?

1004

Whenever a cics program goes through a compilation process, there is always some extra code that is added to the program. Where exactly does this new piece of code go to and what is it termed as ?

1028

Why do we use cursor?

1095

Can min or max be used with alphanumeric data?

976

how do you execute a background cics txn ?

1310

Can you define path?

985

What do you mean by cursor?

988

Can you explain exec cics handle condition command?

1071

Name all the file-open modes

1078

What is the procedure to solve an ASRA ABEND?

1035

What is precompiler in db2?

1009

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