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IBM MainFrame Interview Questions

Questions Answers Views Company eMail

What is the EIB (execute interface block)?

IBM,

2 9689

Before issuing an ASKTIME command what will be the values in the EIBDATE and EIBTIME fields ?

1 7747

How do you invoke other programs? What are the pros and cons of each method?

1 4338

What are the beginning and end points of an LUW called?

1 5453

Specify CICS transaction initiation process. (From the perspective of CICS control programs and control tables.)

IBM,

2 10161

How do you set the MDT option to ?ON? status, even if data is not entered?

1 6142

Which of the following are recoverable CICS resources?

IBM,

1 5893

Which is the command that is used to dump the main storage areas related to a task?

IBM,

1 4825

What happens when a CICS command contains the NOHANDLE option?

IBM,

1 8422

Explain the term ?MRO? (Multi Region Operation)?

IBM,

1 8479

What is Quasi-reentrancy?

IBM,

2 9098

What is ASRAABEND in CICS?

IBM,

2 9131

How to get the sign-on user-id from an application program?

1 9535

The DFHCOMMAREA is used to pass information from one application to another. What are some other ways

OBSS, TCS,

7 30282

What are the DB2 steps required to migrate a CICS DB2 program from source code to load module?

3 8804

Un-Answered Questions { IBM MainFrame }

What is the function of dd disp parameter?

1183

Explain sorting techniques in cobol program? Provide the sort file definition, the sort statement, its syntax and meaning

1149

example for sub strings ? and refernce modifications whit output pls

2374

What is rmode(any) ?

1336

What are the parameter we cannot use in procedure? How many instream we can write in single jcl?

1137

Tell me how many alternate indexes you can have on a dataset?

1159

Are scope terminators compulsory? If they are, when?

1006

Can you explain dfheiblk?

1153

How to check last update on table in db2?

1105

What statement marks the beginning of an in-stream or cataloged procedure in jcl and assigns default values to parameters defined in the procedure?

1368

SQLCODE = -199, ERROR: ILLEGAL USE OF KEYWORD CHAR, TOKEN KEY was expected

11750

What is length is cobol?

1165

State the uses of syspring, sysin, sort fields, sum fields and dummy.

1142

What is innodb buffer pool?

1145

What is db2 instance?

1167

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