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IBM MainFrame Interview Questions

Questions Answers Views Company eMail

ther r 2 tables OTTABLE & SALTABLE, add the otamt from OTTABLE to empsal of SALTABLE if eid is matched else add the unmatched from OTTABLE to SALTABLE

2123

by using cursors , we can access particular records from the table based on some condition, i want to delete those selected records, how can we write a query for this in the program?

Mphasis,

4 9373

how to execute the last 5 steps in jcl

Syntel,

2 7409

What is XDC ?

Cap Gemini, IBM,

3 19132

Describe the COBOL coding sheet

Cap Gemini, Royal Infotech,

2 14797

How can you display the current date & current time ?

Cap Gemini,

1 5181

How can you display the current date & current time ?

Cap Gemini,

7 13165

S9(5)V9(2) occupies how many bytes memory ?

Cap Gemini,

6 49331

How can you display the SPOOL information ?

2 6012

what is invreq condition?

IBM,

3 24561

explain abt types of maps? and explain

1 4547

i want apply mainframe devolper with 3+ but i dont have that much of knowledge what isthe solution to get that much of knoweldge?

1 4676

when SE37 SB37 and sd37 occurs how to increase the volume , primary quantity and secondary quantity?

Hewitt,

1 4057

Which one allows duplicate values Union or Union All ?

3 7665

What is Base Cluster ?

1 6333

Un-Answered Questions { IBM MainFrame }

How do you get the data to code the BMS macro?

2016

Why cursor is used in db2?

1091

Explain difference between read(1) and read work file once?

1020

What is the abend command?

1095

what do you mean by define model parameter?

1229

Explain how can the submitting users racf authority be overridden in a job stream?

1192

What is a lds (linear data set)?

1065

What are IDMS set of occurances?

1427

What is the use of tdq and tsq?

1176

What is an instance database?

1099

Kindly specify the pic clause for the hhmmss type of data fields?

1122

What dd statement is used to supply the name of a dataset?

1453

What is the difference between plan and package in db2?

1176

how to retrieve the instream data in sysin?

1196

Explain in brief how does db2 determine what lock-size to use?

1097

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