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IBM MainFrame Interview Questions

Questions Answers Views Company eMail

explain about index with examples

Syntel,

2 6932

what is an MDT in cics

Syntel,

4 10713

what is a trigger and types of triggers

HSBC,

3 9154

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 6537

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

TCS,

6 11651

what is a steplib

CGI,

4 8255

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

Syntel,

3 8091

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 8270

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

3 10692

give the examples for strings and unstrings in cobol

IBM,

2 8037

what is rebinding ?

IBM,

1 5898

what is the use of bind parameter, Replace?

IBM,

5 10738

can we access sequential files online

Cap Gemini, GS,

4 9409

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

3 5623

can we write a proc with in a proc

IBM,

4 7955

Un-Answered Questions { IBM MainFrame }

which cics service transaction is used to gain accessibility to cics control tables? Mention the one that has the highest priority.?

1180

What is the compute verb? How is it used?

1135

2 input fles: 2 flat files, with different number of records. both are having unique key for each record and already sorted in ascending order . match these files using unique key and in output only matching key value has to be written. please procide cobol logic

2588

What are the 2 sqlcodes that are returned?

1185

have 3 tables table1, table2 and table3 which contains employee information. table1 is master table, table2 contains emp details like emp no and so on, table 3 contains emp salary. so if any emp leave company between 25th - 30th of every month it has to get updated in tables. but it is not getting updated. What is the reason.

1731

without jcl how to run the batch programs

2527

what how do you initialize a vsam file before any operation? A vsam with alternate index?

1007

What is idms-restart ?

1475

Define data page.

1056

Explain the function done by data manager?

1273

which parameter is use to declare the name of dataset in dd statement?

1252

What is a dbrm in db2?

1018

What are hierarchy levels in jcl?

1520

What is job control language?

1084

What is need of start 0? In steed of can we use anyother numerics? If we use what will happen?

1042

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