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

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IBM MainFrame Interview Questions

Questions Answers Views Company eMail

what will happen if i give program name and member name as different? program runs successful or w'll abend?

CTS,

5 12462

what is the control cards?

3 8466

What is the use of DELGEN in DB2? Can we Write the program with out using it?

Cap Gemini,

6 17792

What are the abend codes occour in ur latest PROJECT in DB2

Cap Gemini,

2 8924

Return code 100 means?

Cap Gemini,

6 11072

What is the use of COMMAREA ?Minimum how much data we can pass from it?

Cap Gemini,

7 30237

How can u pass the control from one prog to another in CICS?

Cap Gemini,

10 18956

whar is the difference bwn LINK() and XCTL()?

Cap Gemini, CGI, IBM,

7 14661

can we read in input the file with a variable length ? please , how ..could you help me ?

EDS,

3 9635

example for sub strings ? and refernce modifications whit output pls

College School Exams Tests, IBM,

2376

how to convert fb to vb in jcl ?

IBM, Infosys,

5 46251

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

how to display date in reverse order if the pic clause of the is numeric suppose date is 09032010 ==> need to print in 20100309 (pic clause is numeric)

6 9374

I just know the Panvalet dataset name, i would like to search all the members of that dataset for particular keyword through Rexx. how to achive? please suggest. Is it possible to open panvalet member in browse mode using Rexx? Your help would be appreciated very much. Thanks in advance.

5642

How do you pass data from a Natural Program to an External Subroutine? Can it share the LDA of Program as in Internal Subroutine.

4 14029

Un-Answered Questions { IBM MainFrame }

Explain about few error status codes of idms.

950

When reorg is used?

1192

What is precompiler in db2?

1085

Distinguish among erase, erase permanent, erase selective and erase all?

1752

I need exexution process for JCL programs

2326

If an array is multi-dimensional dynamic array how do you deal with it & provide me some examples?

2508

What is the purpose of disp parameter?

1185

Explain what is a cursor in cics sql processing?

1091

Explain the processing modes available in ims db?

3682

What is meant by mpp mode?

1202

Can a Search can be done on a table with or without Index?

1340

What is the syntax for seeing the columns and data types of a table in the db2 database?

1249

Is db2 free?

1150

When you are obtaining next within a set and get a end of set return code, on what record are you now current?

1504

What is one line to pass PARM from JCL to COBOL?

5016

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