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

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

CSC, IBM,

1 6755

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

Cap Gemini,

1 7927

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

Satyam,

5 10079

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

Cap Gemini, Satyam,

1 14327

How To Retrive The VSAM Datasets in CICS application programs?

Accenture, IBM,

1 3782

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

4 8546

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

HSBC,

3 18788

Is It Possible to Update or change in VIEW Mode?

CSC,

5 12482

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

IBM,

1 5505

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

IBM,

2 13455

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

1 8783

How many types of sorts are there in cobol?

Cap Gemini,

5 14117

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,

5812

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 6985

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,

2190

Un-Answered Questions { IBM MainFrame }

What do you mean by monitor block?

1857

What is control area?

1079

What is mainframe application testing?

1056

What is difference between static call and dynamic call?

1031

Explain the function of dd name parameter with a 2 part structure; audit.report?

1456

Describe the benefits of drda?

961

explain the differences between vsam and non-vsam files

1159

What is consistency token in db2?

1144

Is it possible to left uncode disp? If yes, how?

1193

Explain how does idms communicate with cics?

906

What is a scope terminator give example?

1112

how do you reference the esds vsam file formats from cobol programs

1216

What is page size in db2?

976

What is an area sweep and when is it used?

1546

What is meant by PPT and what are its uses?

1106

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