IBM MainFrame Interview Questions, Answers for Freshers and Experienced asked in various Company Job Interviews

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IMS (143)
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REXX (60)
Assembler (68)
CLIST (6)
QMF (32)

MVS (25)
OS390 (10)
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IBM MainFrame Interview Questions

Questions Answers Views Company eMail

What is the use of DSECT parameter in BMS?

IBM, Xansa,

2 19832

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

IBM,

2 8318

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

2 8103

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

IBM,

4 21350

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

2 7917

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

IBM,

1 6552

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

2 6390

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

2 9093

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

1 7199

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

IBM,

2 5712

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

Kanbay,

5 15836

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

IBM,

3 26641

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

IBM,

1 5523

what are the differences between DFHCOMMAREA and TSQ ?

IBM,

3 15777

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

3 11748

Un-Answered Questions { IBM MainFrame }

What is the need for a secondary index in ims?

1075

Explain eib?

916

How do you use altindxs in batch, cics programs?

1037

How are data passed from jcl parm to assembler program?

1000

what EXEC statement is and what is the syntax of EXEC statement used in JCL?

1161

What is static and dynamic call in cobol?

1060

How is the sorting of vsam files carried?

1116

What are various search techniques in cobol? Explain.

1063

I have to write to a outfile where the number of records in that file should be the header of that file using IMS.. can anyone help me in this issue

2528

How do we specify index to include or not during bind process.

2124

What are the functions available in rexx?

925

What is rmode(any) ?

1253

What is the common work area?

982

I HAVE A VB BLOCK WHICH IS USED AS INPUT IN COBOL CONATINING SOME RECORDS CAN I CHANGE THE FILE FROM VB TO FB?

2553

what is the panel name of ispf primary option menu?

1143

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