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

What?s the CICS command used to access current date and time?

1 9125

When you do a START, what will the value of EIBCALEN?

IBM, Satyam, Xansa,

2 13082

What is the COMMAREA(communications area)?

IBM,

1 6793

How can you accomplish breakpoint in intertest?

IBM,

2 6705

What are the CICS commands associated with transient data queue processing?

1 6269

What is meant by program reentrance?

Amdocs,

1 7250

TSQs can be written in the Main storage or Auxiliary storage (True or False).

IBM,

1 5141

What is the primary function of the Sign-on Table?

1 5358

What is the CICS command that is used to copy a screen image of a terminal into another terminal?

IBM,

1 5913

How to establish dynamic cursor position on a map? How to get the cursor position when we receive a map?

IBM,

2 9770

What is an ASRA?

IBM,

2 7616

What are different ways of initiating transaction in CICS ?

Cap Gemini, IBM,

3 28536

What is the command that is used to add a new record to the file?

1 5420

What is a cursor in CICS sql processing?

IBM,

1 5857

Can you issue SQL COMMIT from a CICS program?

IBM,

2 12882

Un-Answered Questions { IBM MainFrame }

What are the two types of logging in the db2 database? Explain them.

1078

How to access db2 tables in mainframe?

1055

Explain the difference in data type "x" and "p"?

1034

What are the rules employed while naming the steps in a job?

1141

Mention the option used in a cics command to retrieve the response code after execution of the command?

1105

How connect db2 database to datastage?

1244

Mention the way of highlighting as well as putting a cursor to use in a cobol program.

1077

What is program reentrance?

1166

What is a db2 cursor?

1055

Explain paging concept in memory?

1019

What is an OOK-Rec?

1707

Can anybody tell what is tool used to generate the list of PROCS used in JCL to generate a PROCTREE

2458

What is ibm db2 database?

1007

What is meant by an AICA ABEND?

1183

Why do you need a secondary index in an ims?

964

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