IBM MainFrame Interview Questions
Questions Answers Views Company eMail

When and how can we use index & subscript ?

2 5470

What is the use of VSAM files? How to read this ?

CTS,

3 8250

How can we define a table? How can we apply SEARCH ALL on it ?

1 3752

Write the fetch cycle and execute cycle for following instructions:JMPNZ (jump to the given address if the accumulator not equal to zero) RET(return from a subroutine) ADB (add the contents of register B to the accumulator and save result in the accumulator).

1 5865

i want to store 20 digits . h will u do it in cobol ?

TCS,

4 10272

What is R-mode and A-mode?

TCS,

3 9408

Hi , I am posting some questons which are asked at interview. These may help u for ur interview... what is static and dynamic call?

TCS,

2 4832

Hi , I am posting some interview ques . what is the use of cursors ? what is the diff between select and cursor ? bith are used for data retrival .. rite?

Deloitte,

2 5623

what is the use of commit ? and what is the syntax?

Deloitte,

2 9248

how to see the latest generation in gdg?

Deloitte,

3 7625

Hi, My interviewer ask A calls B and C calls B, a and b are static c and b are dynamic.what happens if they compile and execute at same time.

iGate,

3 8060

Hi, If a catolog proc has another proc in it, both have ddnames dd1 and dd2. what proc will override if gave override parameter. Here both have same step names.

UHG,

2 5739

I have a Field which is of size 9(4). In the Screen if I enter the value for this field as 1234, it showing it as Valid. But if I enter only one or two digits, zeros should be appended in the remaining places. For example: When u enter 1 in the screen the output should be 0001. When you enter 12, output should be 0012. How to achieve this in the program?

7 8216

Explain the exact situation, when to use CALL, XCTL and LINK?

CGI,

6 13909

In jcl i have 255 steps. In 255 step i declared proc. In proc i have 20 steps this job is executable or not? why?

4 12117


Un-Answered Questions { IBM MainFrame }

We can use PASS with permanent datasets also. THEN Which is the condition in which we may use PASS (instead of KEEP) with permanent data sets, while there is no need to specify UNIT and VOL for them like temporary data sets (in cas we use KEEP for permanent data sets) ?

1754


Explain how you can characterize tables in cobol?

641


Explain how to find occurrence of mu and pe fields in a file?

503


have in 100 records in a file i want to read first 3 records and skip next 3 records and agan i want to read 3 records and again i want to skip 3 records... run a loop from record one to 10 evaluate i/3 if comes even then skip else write to output file

925


What does a finish do in idms?

530






Explain the difference between and exec cics xctl and an exec cics link command?

568


a dd statement has 2 types of parameters. Name them?

653


Explain psbgen process?

718


Define the term function request shipping?

581


Explain the difference between getting the system time with eibtime and asktime command?

567


what is meant by dirty read in vsam?

844


What is with ur in db2?

761


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2169


What is the function of //cntl statement?

832


How can return codes be tested before execution of a job step?

929