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IBM MainFrame Interview Questions

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I want to set position for a particular text in a certain position in several of my cics maps.Please provide me with a solution. Ex: If "F1-Help" has to be set to pos(4,27) always in all the maps within a PDS.

2371

How do u find the programs calling the given module, without having doing 3.13 on loadlib/source library?

2 7357

How to resolve -805 error in DB2?

Cap Gemini,

1 36366

How to resolve -803 sql code in DB2?

Cap Gemini,

3 44602

How to resolve -818 sql code in DB2?

Cap Gemini,

2 24605

How to resolve -502 sql code in DB2?

Cap Gemini,

2 25466

How to resolve -917 sql code in DB2?

Cap Gemini,

3 17222

How to resolve -407 sql code in DB2?

Cap Gemini,

9 32006

How to resolve -504 sql code in DB2?

Cap Gemini,

2 19070

This question regarding Checkpoint. Suppose my program has checkpoint for every 100 records. If my program abends at 120 records, what will happen. I know first 100 records are committed and rest of 20 records where they gone and where they are stored.

IBM, John Deere,

1 10061

how can we pass parameters from JCL to cobol subprogram...my requirement is i should not get data from mainprogram but i need it from JCL directly

IBM, TCS,

5 24493

How to get the last but one duplicate record of the file using Sort?

Fidelity,

2 11174

How to find the number of duplicates in a file using Sort?

Fidelity,

4 27312

what is the COND=EVEN ? Can anyone give me an example to explain the usage.

2 8425

There is one QSAM is the VB file. i want to get the first characters in this file and change those characters from'abcd' to '1234' and creat a vasm file to put '1234' in it. how to do in only JCL. if it not QSAM, it's VASM and VB. how to do it.

IBM,

1 6095

Un-Answered Questions { IBM MainFrame }

What does a ROLLBACK do?

1594

What is speed parameters in define cluster command?

1116

Enlist the features of rexx as a programming language.

1098

what about F1 & F2 keys in xpeditor? And their functionalities?

2585

Define the necessity of run stats among the environment test?

1060

What do we mean by 'Virtual storage' for a dataset and for a JOBSTEP ? What is the significance of the following statement for a programmer 'Virtual storage results in program addresses being independent of the addresses that actually exist in a computer' ?

2085

If a ceo wants to see all employees of the company from an online screen. How will be the design of the map from the developer point of view?

1091

What are some jcl statements that are not allowed in procedures?

1298

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 ?

1084

What is the difference between version control and debugging tools?

1131

We can allocate memory dynamically by using GET MAIN command my question is at what scenario we can't release this memory and reuse this same memory??

3322

Explain referential integrity?

1165

what is the meaning of notcat 2?

1190

suppose if you added a coloumn to db2 table, How would it be the Impact analysis?

2119

What is the information associated with sysibm.syslinks table?

1176

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