IBM MainFrame Interview Questions
Questions Answers Views Company eMail

What is the use of DSECT parameter in BMS?

IBM, Xansa,

2 18546

Which CICS system program is responsible for handling automatic task initialization?

IBM,

2 7138

Native Mode Data Stream (NMDS) is a mixture of Buffer Control Characters(BCC) and text data (True or False)

2 7248

What is the difference between CICS Program Control Table (PCT) and CICS Processing Program Table (PPT) ?

IBM,

4 19893

What is the command which will delete a program LOADed into the main storage using LOAD command?

2 6859

How do you place the cursor on a particular position on the screen?

IBM,

1 5848

How will you place cursor on a field called ?EMPNO?.

2 5528

Why doesn?t CICS use the Cobol Open and Close statements ?

2 7932

Reading a record from a TSQ will logically delete the record from the Queue (True or False).

1 6348

What are the three ways available for a program to position the cursor on the screen?

IBM,

2 4736

What is the option that is used to erase all unprotected fields during a SEND MAP operation?

Kanbay,

5 13936

A CICS program ABENDS with an ASRA ABEND code. What is its meaning?

IBM,

3 25015

What CICS command do you need to obtain the user logon-id?

IBM,

1 4827

what are the differences between DFHCOMMAREA and TSQ ?

IBM,

3 14325

When an XCTL is done, does the tranid change ? Is a new task created ? Does it cause an implicit

3 10472


Un-Answered Questions { IBM MainFrame }

what is the difference between COBOL2 AND COBOL390?

2456


Is it possible to create an Instance in DB2 using DB2 Control Center ?

631


What does sqlcabc has?

633


How do you concatenate the firstname and lastname from emp table to give a complete name?

605


If DB2 query returns in null value, how do you work with it in PL/1?

1934






What parameter of the job statement is used to limit the cpu time consumed by the job?

845


What is meant by bmp mode?

584


what are s0c1, s0c4, s0c5, s0c7 abends?

796


Tell about how do you eliminate the duplicates?

535


Why do we need reorg in db2?

567


what is the meaning of notcat 2?

655


Differentiate between structured cobol programming and object-oriented cobol programming.

670


What are the objectives of dbms in ims?

660


What is jcl in mainframe, and how many types of jcl statements are there for a job?

633


What is the difference between plan and package in db2?

581