IBM MainFrame Interview Questions
Questions Answers Views Company eMail

What are the different open modes available in cobol?

711

What is the difference between subscript and index?

1 968

What is cobol?

733

What is length is cobol?

636

What is a report item?

729

Explain how pa key is different from pf key?

642

What is the procedure to read a statement from tsq?

641

Every map is categorized into multiple fields, and there are three common working storage fields present for each of these respective fields. Mention those?

592

What does a cics translator do?

877

In case if the user inputs the characters which turn out to be uppercase, then what is the procedure to close that condition?

566

Receive consists of buffer option in it. What is the significance of this option?

561

If we say that bms length of field = 0, then what does that mean?

720

Can a tsq of one particular transaction be accessed from an alternate transaction?

1 1038

Let us say you have a collection of multiple maps in cics. So if you are asked to determine the exact storage space that is available in a symbolicmap, then how will you compute it?

679

List out all the tables that are a part of cics ?

573


Un-Answered Questions { IBM MainFrame }

What are the distinctive features of a ksda, key sequenced dataset?

522


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

836


In case if at some point of time db2 is down, would that impact the pre-compilation process of a db2-cobol program?

567


Explain psbgen process?

711


What is the contrast between delimited by space and delimited by size?

527






What are sqlcodes –803,-805, -811, -818,-904,-911,-913,-101, +100?

692


What is difference between static call and dynamic call?

544


What is ibm db2 database?

525


how do you fire a batch job from a cics txn ?

597


Mention the types of job control statements?

678


How jcl is used for testing batch programs?

714


Explain difference between read(1) and read work file once?

546


What is comp-1 and comp-2?

752


What action db2 takes when a program aborts in the middle of a transaction?

647


Can you explain dfheiblk?

617