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IBM MainFrame Interview Questions

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Hi, I have 3 files say file A , file B and file C.I want to form an output file in which i will have all the records from file A. Files B and C also may contain records that are present in file A.I want those records also to be included in my output file. for eg: file A contains: 1 2 3 file B contains: 2 4 5 file C contains: 1 3 5 So in my output file should look like: 1 2 3 2 1 3 Can any one help ???.....thanks in advance.

2 4941

what is qualification on occurs clause?

2 6253

//ERFDS JOB //STEP1 //STEP2 //STEP3...COND=(4,LT) //STEP4 1.CONDITION IN STEP3 REFERS TO WHICH STEP'S RETURN CODE (STEP1 OR STEP2)? 2.IN ABOVE PROGRAM IF CONDITION SATISFIES IN STEP3 WHICH STEPS WILL EXECUTE?? AND WHY? IF CONDITION IN STEP3 SATISFIES

IBM,

5 12611

What is diff betn PS and ESDS file? What is the diffrent compiler options in cobol and there discription? What is retrive nth maximum salary from salary DB2 table. Can we redefine COM-3 variable with varchar variable?

4 8860

Why PS file called Physical seqential file?How to sore data in sequential file and ESDS file? What is the use of DBRM,PLAN,package and Collection.

1 4493

why 02 level number can't be use as a separate level number like 01 or 77 ?

3 6605

how do you resolve -818 error in db2. where we have to see time stamp token. i said by seeing in load module and plan .is it correct or not. give clear explination for how to see time stamp token

IBM, TRD,

2 7798

how to resolve -811

IBM,

2 5903

how to resolve -805. give clear explination for that

IBM,

2 6488

how to fetch first 100 rows in db2

IBM,

2 13302

when i am trying to update a table having 1000 rows. the program abends.how we will come to know the last successful updated row was. we are not using any commit operations

IBM,

3 8394

if we give two job cards in a single what happens

IBM,

3 8648

how to split a file

IBM,

4 18248

can we display comp-3 variables. if we want to display what we have to do . give me one example

CGI, Deloitte,

6 50068

BY seeing a program how can we say that it is static call or dynamic call

CGI,

5 13080

Un-Answered Questions { IBM MainFrame }

what is diffrence b/w file-aid tool and file-aid utility???

4978

What is multithreading in jcl?

1540

Name the various types of tables spaces.

1183

which utility is used to run a cobol-db2 program?

1471

What is the picture clause of null indicator variable?

1198

Suppose if there are a set of statements and each has a word “value” in it, if I want to display all these statements so that the word “value” is aligned, then how do I code this in rexx?

1026

What is an in line perform? When would you use it? Anything else you wish to say about it.

1152

If anyone has IBM Certification Dumps pls forward to me & also let me know what are the Certification Codes that are available in DB2

2100

what are the types of abends that occur on job failure? And explain the possible causes of these

1699

what is the difference between COBOL2 AND COBOL390?

3122

What is the function of linear dataset in vsam?

1124

What is the procedure to read a statement from tsq?

1143

What is a db2 cursor?

1114

What is the use of trt instruction?

1092

what do you mean by the repro command?

1168

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