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

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IBM MainFrame Interview Questions

Questions Answers Views Company eMail

What is timing concept in mainframe?

2270

In JCL I have 5 steps,I need to execute 1st,2nd and 5th steps only,can any one answer me please?

TCS,

2 20753

i have 6 steps in my jcl program after going to 5th step i want to execute 3rd step.....how can i do it....by using(RESTART) can i do it or not?

Wipro,

2 7487

HOw to submit a job from other user id.? for exp some other job name like "t4622sdx".now i want to submit that job from my user id?(we don't know that location at all Just we know job name)

MSN Pharma, UST,

1 9551

I have a input file. Data like: ABCDEFGH.... i want out put file like AB BC CD DE....How can do this??

UST,

7 12955

In my table having 100 Rec. How can I delete the 7th row?? (we don't know what is data inside the table)

IBM,

9 16114

How many maps can we declare in a mapset.what is the limit.

IBM,

4 10019

In my table having 3000 Records. How can I delete the 500th row? (we don't know what is data inside the table)

Keane India Ltd,

3 10412

Please send me the real time scenarios in Mainframe Project... i.e., it may be in banking or insurance sector or any other no problem..... please send your mails to krishnaprasadbvs@gmail.com

CSC,

11814

I want to know what exactly the STOPPER field does with example. Please help.

1 4558

What is the drawback of using HANDLE CONDITION?

IBM,

1 6113

My JCL has 4 steps that execute PROC’s P1, P2, P3 and P4 as shown below //P1 EXEC PROC=P1 //P2 EXEC PROC=P2 //P3 EXEC PROC=P3 //P4 EXEC PROC=P4 There are four steps S1, S2, S3 and S4 in each PROC’s (i.e. P1, P2, P3 and P4) I want to execute only step S2 of PROC P2 and no other steps or PROC’s. How do you achieve this?

IMS,

4 10074

how to purge 50 initiators continuously?? console commands??

IBM, ups,

4 14378

I have 255 procedures in a job, each procedure contain 2 steps.can we execute this job?

2 6720

ihave ten flatfile in that iwant to concatinate all the files except file 5,6 into output file by uing jcl? how to do this? give me detail yntax for tis?

IBM,

4 9224

Un-Answered Questions { IBM MainFrame }

How do I delete a table in database?

1079

What is package in cobol db2?

1167

Can I cleanly uninstall oorexx?

1022

What is recovery parameters in define cluster command?

1122

name the utility program closely associated with vsam?

1107

What is the mainframe testing? Categorize the mainframe manual testing?

1000

What are steplib and joblib? What for they are used?

1312

What is release/acquire in bind?

1165

Explain eib?

974

What is the primary aspect of CICS?

1189

Name the command used for terminating a browse operation?

1077

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

1342

What is ibm db2 connect?

1060

What is the difference between goback, stop run and exit program in cobol?

1649

What are the different types of PL/1 files?

2237

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