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IBM MainFrame Interview Questions

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Why do we code s9 (4) comp. Inspite of knowing comp-3 will occupy less space?

1153

Name the divisions, which are available in a cobol program?

1235

What is the difference between structured cobol programming and object alternativelyiented cobol programming?

1243

What is amode(31)

1174

Explain how will you differentiate between an internal and an external sort, the pros and cons, internal sort syntax etc

1255

What is the difference between a binary search and a sequential search what are the pertinent cobol?

1140

What is a scope terminator give example?

1113

What is the difference between comp and comp-3?

1185

Difference between cobol and cobol-ii?

1280

What are literals?

1136

What kind of error is trapped by on size error option?

1245

What are the different data types in cobol?

1447

Can we redefine the field of x(200) to less than 200?

1377

What is the local-storage section?

1148

What is the difference between perform … with test after and perform … with test before?

1458

Un-Answered Questions { IBM MainFrame }

How do we specify index to include or not during bind process.

2128

If we wish to create bms executable, what are the basic steps that the user has to go through?

1087

What is explain in db2?

1027

What is data manager?

1051

In which area will you utilize 88 level items in cobol?

1165

Hi, i would like to start a new carrier in DB2 DBA.Which and what all step should i have to take..?

3157

What happens in bind step in a db2 program?

974

What is runstats utility in db2?

1021

What is the maximum number of columns in a db2 table?

1285

What is icm instruction?

1062

what is the purpose of the verify function of idcams?

1056

What Are Send Map Maponly & Send Map Dataonly ?

1215

what do you mean by idcams? Explain its purpose?

967

How would you find out the total number of rows in a db2 table?

1055

What is the maximum size of varchar data type in db2?

1137

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