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

explain about index with examples

Syntel,

2 7075

what is an MDT in cics

Syntel,

4 10886

what is a trigger and types of triggers

HSBC,

3 9371

I have a table name Table1 which contain columns Cust_no, car_model, country, salesamt. The records are 101, Fiat, India, 12345 2nd record is 102, Tata, USA, 98743 3rd record is 101, indica, India, 65342 4th record is 103, Toyota, UK, 64522 5th record is 103, Maruti, USA, 98632 and so on..... Now my question is write sql query which will give me detail about the sum of sales amount in perticular country

IBM,

2 6661

01 A pic 9(100) find record length of it

TCS,

6 11908

what is a steplib

CGI,

4 8480

using cursor how can you fetch more than one record into a variable

Syntel,

3 8274

If I defined space as TRK(10,10) for the one file and lrecl = 4K then tell me how many record will vsam file will contain. will it 1,2,3,4,5 or how many,

IBM,

3 8435

What is the difference between shroptions(2 3) and shroptions (4 3) in the Def CLUSTER ??

3 10824

give the examples for strings and unstrings in cobol

IBM,

2 8175

what is rebinding ?

IBM,

1 6002

what is the use of bind parameter, Replace?

IBM,

5 10966

can we access sequential files online

Cap Gemini, GS,

4 9577

if a>b continue display x. dispaly y. end-if display 1 display 2. display 3. what should be my output ?

3 5780

can we write a proc with in a proc

IBM,

4 8103

Un-Answered Questions { IBM MainFrame }

What is the purpose of dd?

1299

what is the use of the file status clause in the select statement in vsam?

1165

What is a set? How may sets be ordered?

903

How do you submit a job for execution?

1165

What is runstats and reorg in db2?

1367

How many root segments do we have per database record?

1094

what are the common errors that occured while programming in AS/400?

1578

what is the difference between COBOL2 AND COBOL390?

3117

If I have a view which is a join of two or more tables, can this view be updateable?

1190

i want to learn mainframe..any websites and material to learn from basic..? my mail id : rajeswaribe2010@gmail.com

2280

Kindly specify the pic clause for the data type of length option field type of data fields?

1201

What are 77 levels used for?

1152

can any one exaplin about Decision Tables in test region with good example

2856

What is precompiler in db2?

1082

Does Disconnect and Connect creates page lock in IDMS ?

1538

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