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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there are 10 steps in jcl how to execute the steps from step2 to step8 only

EDS,

6 14039

what is the cond=even only

EDS,

4 8872

how to concatenate datasets

EDS,

5 23906

what is instream data

EDS,

2 7229

can we give instream data in procedure

EDS,

6 19316

in jcl you are having JCLLIB and STEPLIB what happens

EDS, Wipro,

10 26159

what is the difference b/w sequential and ESDS

EDS, IBM, Maples,

6 12184

what is freespace

EDS,

2 9447

what is control interval(CI) and control Area(CA)

EDS,

4 11119

88 class is used for

CTS, EDS,

5 10299

how to access vsam files in cobol and how to differentiate that this is ESDS file

EDS,

1 7780

what is the difference between normal select query and currosor

Cap Gemini, TCS,

2 17470

when we are tying to update a table having 100 rows. if the program abends when updating 51 row . how to start updating again from the 51 row .what was the logic

TCS,

2 10035

How can we know that cobol program is using report file or simple file....?

4 8672

can I copy book which contain db2 statment in procedure divion?

Bank Of America,

2 9667

Un-Answered Questions { IBM MainFrame }

how can you copy to a vsam cluster?

1143

Difference between array and sub-script ?

1656

What are the uses of db2 optimizer?

1294

Discuss some of the terminology of idms.

918

My IMS main progam is calling Db2 subroutine ...Its giving - 923 db2 sql code..so could any one tell how to solve this issue.

3591

What is mainframe computer /system?

1019

When you specify multiple datasets in a JOBLIB or STEPLIB, what factor determines the order?

1458

Explain how do you access the records randomly in tsq?

1101

Whats the difference between search & search ALL?

6521

What is the compute verb? How is it used?

1140

I have one ps file in which there are 3 fileds emp_no,emp_name and leave_app.this ps file information give the detail of employee which is going to apply for leave.suppose emp_no=113430,emp_name=ajay,leave_app=1 that means he is going to apply for 1 day leave.and accordingling the table in db2 will be updated means if he has that no of leave in his account then he will get dat leave and updated acc. in table(leave_balance=previous leave present in table-leave_app).Now i want to check whther the updated result is correct or not by comparing the two ps file using IEBCOMPARE or icetool so what is going to be the two ps file and how its is going to be compare.

2427

i tried to copy some records from microsoft excel to as-400 physical file through "Bosanova" emulation. Out of 14000 records only 12000 records copies and subsequently programe started to hang. Then, i closed the program forcefully. I did' under stand the problem. Also when i try to compile the physical file it is showing as "The file in use". How to overcome this problem?

2531

execution of a subordinate module is caused by the use of the cobol verbs ------------in the superior module

1075

How to connect to db2 database from windows command line?

1061

What is the default page size of buffer pools?

1122

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