IBM MainFrame Interview Questions, Answers for Freshers and Experienced asked in various Company Job Interviews

COBOL (1072)
JCL (1031)
CICS (755)
DB2 (1122)

IMS (143)
IDMS (107)
Natural (81)
ADABAS (26)

REXX (60)
Assembler (68)
CLIST (6)
QMF (32)

MVS (25)
OS390 (10)
OS 2 (7)
VSAM (319)

IBM MainFrame Interview Questions

Questions Answers Views Company eMail

how do u define a file in cobol and jcl ?

TCS,

2 9023

wht happens if we dnt give scope terminator ?

TCS,

4 8913

where will u code file status ?

TCS,

2 6832

how do u link sub pgm to main pgm ?

TCS,

2 7637

how to pass 100 to s9(4) how r they inserted ?

TCS,

3 10238

what is + sign and -ve sign for sql code ?

TCS,

1 6765

how can u understand the end of the table ?

TCS,

1 6747

if i made sme changes in sub pgm wht r the things to be done for this ?

TCS,

1 6332

wht displays the number of times a query modified ?

TCS,

2 7220

where will u check for sqlcode ?

TCS,

2 7752

how do u update the faltfile into db2 table ?

RBS, TCS,

4 11294

can we print comp 3 stmts how ?

Accenture, TCS,

3 13720

how can i use the parameters decalred in main pgm in sub pgm

TCS,

2 6720

Difference between ps, esds

3 14396

Difference between lrecl, blksize among PS, PDS issues? i.e in jcl at dcb

1 6170

Un-Answered Questions { IBM MainFrame }

Which component is responsible for db2 startup and shutdown?

1088

Which is the difference between delimited by size and delimited by space?

1150

how to get the last record in vsam file in cluster? And how can u get the ksds file records into ur cobol program?

1027

What is the difference between drop table and delete table?

1298

What is adabas?

1101

Must tape dataset definitions include vol=ser specifications?

1790

What are the difference between jcl and jes?

1666

explain in brief how you can create a vsam file?

1204

What is the physical storage length of the data types date, time, and timestamp?

1151

How are type 1 and type 2 indexes different?

1076

Which command can you use to check for the number of records in a physical file?

1369

what are the six different type of argument values in cobol that can be placed in various options of a cics command?

1334

List some fields from sqlca?

1114

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4072

What is the main purpose of having user catalog in vsam?

1138

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