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

How to handle exceptional conditions in cics?

1127

Can you define cics task?

1105

What is the main function of the sign-on table?

1072

Can you define transid?

1021

Can you define cemt?

1045

Can you explain differences between temporary storage queue (tsq) and transient data queue (tdq)?

1074

How to do automated restart when a job abend?

1373

In job processing, what happens in execution stage?

1192

In job processing, what happens in conversion stage?

1189

How do you access an uncatalogued dataset in a jcl?

1214

What is the output of the following command given in tso/ispf terminal?

1020

How many registers we are using in mvs?

1192

What is need of start 0?

1121

How to get the last record in vsam file in cluster? And how can u get the ksds file records into cobol program?

1028

How to get the last record in vsam file in cluster? And how can you get the ksds file records into cobol program?

1158

Un-Answered Questions { IBM MainFrame }

Which command can you use to check for the number of records in a physical file?

1314

What is psbgen process?

1154

how can we define a gdg?

940

When space is allocated for an output dataset, what units can be used?

1259

Comment whether the cursor is closed during commit or not.

1095

What's The Percentage Free Space ?

1223

Can you explain function of dbctl?

1119

What is mainframe database?

899

What are the benefits of using the db2 database?

1222

In an sql table that is embedded, what is the procedure to retrieve rows that are part of a db2 table?

1101

Explain about record currency?

846

What is the function of a dd statement?

1200

explain sorting techniques in cobol program?

1195

How do you pull up a query which was previously saved in qmf?

1147

What is concatenating?

1074

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