IBM MainFrame Interview Questions
Questions Answers Views Company eMail

In an EVALUTE statement is the order of the WHEN clauses significant?

4 10672

Give some advantages of REDEFINES clause?

Syntel,

2 18648

How do you do in-line PERFORM?

Accenture,

4 15636

Explain call by context by comparing it to other calls.

1 7928

What does EXIT do ?

Deloitte,

3 12016

what is Pic 9v99 Indicates?

2 12070

What is an explicit scope terminator?

3 18841

COMP?

2 5313

What should be the sorting order for SEARCH ALL?

5 8889

How is sign stored in Packed Decimal fields and Zoned Decimal fields?

ABC, HCL, TCS,

6 35552

How do you define a table/array in COBOL?

Hexaware,

5 29270

When is a scope terminator mandatory?

3 7955

How do you submit JCL via a Cobol program?

IBM,

5 18487

What is the difference between a DYNAMIC and STATIC call in COBOL?

2 11688

Differentiate COBOL and COBOL-II?

1941


Un-Answered Questions { IBM MainFrame }

Explain how does idms communicate with cics?

487


What is the term bms in cics?

668


What is commarea (communications area)?

527


if we display var1 then what will b displayed in below condition. 77 var1 pic s9(2) value -10. 77 var1 pic s9(2) value -11. " " " -12. " " " -13. -14 ... ... -19.

5645


i want to learn mainframe..any websites and material to learn from basic..? my mail id : rajeswaribe2010@gmail.com

1755






Where can program checkpoints be stored for use in a restart?

832


A chkpt is the parameter coded for multi-volume qsam datasets in a dd statement. When a chkpt is coded as chkpt=eov, a checkpoint is written to the dataset specified in the sysckeov statement at the end of each volume of the input/output multi-volume dataset. State whether true or false?

719


What is the purpose of disp parameter?

631


when a task suspends all the handle conditions via the push command, how does the task reactivate all the handle conditions?

677


How to Provide Column Names Using the DRAW Command ?

1097


What is a run unit in idms?

486


Explain the difference between physical map and symbolic map?

553


how can i see junk values in dclgen or in hostvariable of comp ?

2528


how you will the direct the data to spool using sysout option?

1743


How to run cobol program using jcl?

637