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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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.

2305

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

2 7244

How to resolve -805 error in DB2?

Cap Gemini,

1 36198

How to resolve -803 sql code in DB2?

Cap Gemini,

3 44380

How to resolve -818 sql code in DB2?

Cap Gemini,

2 24447

How to resolve -502 sql code in DB2?

Cap Gemini,

2 25332

How to resolve -917 sql code in DB2?

Cap Gemini,

3 17031

How to resolve -407 sql code in DB2?

Cap Gemini,

9 31584

How to resolve -504 sql code in DB2?

Cap Gemini,

2 18937

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 9942

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 24286

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

Fidelity,

2 11052

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

Fidelity,

4 27067

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

2 8238

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 6013

Un-Answered Questions { IBM MainFrame }

What is difference between isnull and coalesce?

1052

What is the purpose of using commit?

1095

What is the quality process in development?

1081

Explain eib?

916

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' ?

2023

What is a vsam dataset?

1026

how can we apply for HSBC exam(Mainframe) in India??? i went to their site and was told to submit my CV ,. etc..( totally confusing...)

2381

Discuss some of the terminology of idms.

917

Define an asra abend?

1076

What is RRange and ARange?

2103

How dummy is used in jcl?

1147

what is the responsibility of the construction superintendent

2140

what is SOC4 error?

1218

Explain how can the attributes of one sms dataset be copied to another dataset?

1212

i was faced one question- i have value -00001234.56 Suppress the zeroes and the output should be -1234.56 But Not - 1234.56 spaces should not be available after suppressing the zeroes. logic in jcl and cobol?

1324

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