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

COBOL (1072)
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CICS (755)
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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

How To Compile The COBOL-BD2-CI CS Programs In Real TIme? Please Give Me the Detailed Description?

CSC, IBM,

1 6856

How do you enter into cics region and how many regions available?

Cap Gemini,

1 8000

How can you compare table column after update and before update?

Satyam,

5 10300

Can any one write coding for scrolling logic or page up & page down?

Cap Gemini, Satyam,

1 14404

How To Retrive The VSAM Datasets in CICS application programs?

Accenture, IBM,

1 3866

Which of the following characters is NOT valid in column 7? a. - b. \ c. * d. # e. $

4 8723

Ques: How can we code COND parameter in a JCL so that only even steps (or only odd steps) get execute??

HSBC,

3 19007

Is It Possible to Update or change in VIEW Mode?

CSC,

5 12706

2)Where the Plan is located in CICS-DB2?

IBM,

1 5590

If I want to increase the Limit in GDG. What should I do?

IBM,

2 13574

Can we use two or more SYSPUNCH DD statements in a JCL for multiple unload (SYSREC00 & SYSREC01)..?

1 8853

How many types of sorts are there in cobol?

Cap Gemini,

5 14298

1.Is it possible to move the data from 99.99 to 99v99? 2.What is the CICS-vsam Compilation process? 3.In My GDG 5 generation will be there GDG3 got an abend what will happen? 4.In my GDG first generation is +1 And I want to add the new generation what will happen previous generation? 5.How can you give the PIC clause below conditions A). s9 (reddy), B). s9 (5) occurs 5 times? 6.How override the proc from a particular step? and what is symbolic and override Procs?

IBM,

5881

If a sub program is called from mainprogram.I have opened cursor in main program and Fetch the result in subprogram ,Is it possible ?If yes please tell me the reason.

1 7088

in options (main) , what is meaning of main . if u not used main what will happen? After compiling, os will not understand where to load and execute from

AppLabs,

2249

Un-Answered Questions { IBM MainFrame }

Define acb?

3699

What is auto status in idms?

932

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

1132

to use the rewrite command, how should the vsam file be opened?

1368

What is the purpose of the dd keylen parameter?

1292

what is DD statement is used in JCL?

1254

How to execute 2nd and 4th steps among 5 steps in jcl proc?

1413

How to get the last record in vsam file in cluster? And how can you get the kids file records into your cobol program?

1273

When is inspect verb is used in cobol?

1324

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

1109

Why do chiropractors use drop table?

1167

Explain how to produce soc7 abend?

1143

Can you define foreign keys?

1089

Describe the cobol database components?

1221

What is host variable in db2 cobol?

1142

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