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

What is inspect in cobol ?

Infosys,

1356

How many sections are there in data division in COBOL?

B-Ways TecnoSoft,

1188

What is the difference between PIC 9.99 and 9v99 in COBOL?

SwanSoft Technologies,

1407

How to pass the parameter in parm using linkage section ? (syntax)?

Infosys,

1186

What is redefines clause in COBOL?

B-Ways TecnoSoft,

1352

Explain the use of DCT ?

1124

What does EIB mean in CICS?

1236

What is CICS ?

1053

Give the definition of COMMAREA ?

1115

What is meant by PPT and what are its uses?

1159

What is meant by a ‘Transid’ ?

1106

Mention one alternative aspect of CICS?

1131

Can QSAM files be accessed from CICS?

1191

Differentiate between PCT and FCT.

1237

What is the procedure to solve an ASRA ABEND?

1088

Un-Answered Questions { IBM MainFrame }

how can you check if a file is empty using jcl?

1492

How to remove the spaces at the end of each record in the output file of variable length, via cobol program?

1221

What is a dbrm in db2?

1082

What is alias in db2?

1115

File not opened because library is *PROD and debug is UPDPROD(*NO). ? what may be the reason? how to solve it..?

3011

what is pdes?

1169

How to change size of Initial number of records to *NOMAX for ALL PF files from perticular library, how can I do that

3281

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

1412

What is afoper?

915

How do you find the maximum value in a column in db2?

1157

How to find primary key of a table in db2?

1132

What is the maximum number of fields allowed per segment and what is the maximum number of fields per database?

1080

How can you find out the # of rows updated after an update statement?

1158

What is database descriptor?

1080

What does the 'cebr:cics' transactions do?

1081

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