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

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

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IBM MainFrame Interview Questions

Questions Answers Views Company eMail

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

1 9215

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

IBM, Satyam, Xansa,

2 13184

What is the COMMAREA(communications area)?

IBM,

1 6878

How can you accomplish breakpoint in intertest?

IBM,

2 6829

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

1 6353

What is meant by program reentrance?

Amdocs,

1 7330

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

IBM,

1 5221

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

1 5435

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

IBM,

1 6015

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

IBM,

2 9892

What is an ASRA?

IBM,

2 7725

What are different ways of initiating transaction in CICS ?

Cap Gemini, IBM,

3 28702

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

1 5491

What is a cursor in CICS sql processing?

IBM,

1 5940

Can you issue SQL COMMIT from a CICS program?

IBM,

2 13020

Un-Answered Questions { IBM MainFrame }

What is universal database?

1125

What is frset?

1082

What is cursor with hold option in db2?

1139

There are 5 fields and 1000 records in a file. Unload it into an array. Write the syntax for declaration and how will you unload it.

1501

What is DEQ?

1113

how to run batch program without jcl?

11705

What does it mean by Restart and Checkpoint in JCL ? How are checkpoints being taken and what is their usage ? How to use Checkpoint macro on a JOBSTEP ?

9809

What are fset, frset?

1072

Which component is responsible for db2 startup and shutdown?

1088

what are the thress bms options?

1311

Can you explain control variable in online screens?

1036

How can unused space allocation be returned to the system when a dataset is closed?

1569

What is basic difference between directory and pds in ibm mainframe?

1234

Is db2 a programming language?

1105

How you can characterize tables in cobol?

1257

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