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 is difference between Plan and Package

Syntel,

1 6026

How do run the JCL which has 25 steps by skipping the following steps 5, 10,15 and 25 without using COND statement

Syntel,

5 10692

file status 00 is checked after opening the file or reading the file

John Deere,

4 8248

how can you save the query in QMF?IS IT POSSIBLE OR NOT.IF POSSIBLW HOW?

Hewitt,

1 5778

How can u know the current date using jcl?

iNautix, Wipro,

2 14093

What is -904 sql code? How to resolve it?

3 46053

What are the common keyword parameters in both job and exec statements

Cap Gemini,

4 14349

When will we need to specify Space parameter ?

Wipro,

3 7741

Can you delete the GDG base without deleting GDG generations ?

Cap Gemini,

7 23179

In how ways you can pass the data from Jcl to cobol ?

Cap Gemini, IBM,

3 19641

What is the maximum data length for Numeric DataType ?

Cap Gemini,

3 9535

01 a pic s9(5) occupies how many bytes ?

Wipro,

9 30257

What is the use of IEBGENER ?

Cap Gemini, Wipro,

2 9435

How can you declare the file ?

Wipro,

1 5118

How many divisions we have in Cobol ?

Wipro,

4 8689

Un-Answered Questions { IBM MainFrame }

what are the six different type of argument values in cobol that can be placed in various options of a cics command?

1223

What is the difference between general testing and mainframe testing?

1049

What are the different commands used in idcams for vsam?

1012

What is rebind in db2?

1008

Explain how to pass instream data in sysin with assembler?

1032

What is the syntax of JCL statement?

1170

Explain sorting techniques in cobol program? Provide the sort file definition, the sort statement, its syntax and meaning

1052

Define acb?

3593

What are the utility programs in jcl?

1108

Explain how would you resolve an asra abend?

939

what is the JCL statement consists of?

1138

can you specify some the distinctive features of a ksds, key sequenced dataset?

991

Can I cleanly uninstall oorexx?

916

what will happen when you try to open an empty vsam file in a cobol program for input?

1010

How many ways are there for initiating a transaction?

1007

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