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

Why is it important not to execute a STOP RUN in CICS ?

IBM,

4 12597

What is the CICS command that is used to receive the un- formatted data from the terminal?

2 7446

What is the command used to request notification when the specified time has expired?

1 5129

How is dynamic memory allocated within a CICS application program?

IBM,

1 11266

Which of the following statements correctly describe the syntax of CICS command language?

1 5865

How can you start a CICS transaction other than by keying the Transaction ID at the terminal?

IBM,

5 25449

What is effect on RECEIVE MAP when PF key is pressed? PA key is pressed?

1 7177

What is the difference between a Symbolic map and Physical map ?

IBM,

4 46946

What is multitasking and multithreading?

IBM,

4 25051

How do you establish a starting position in a browse operation?

IBM,

2 7127

Sync points cannot be requested by the application programs (True or False).

IBM,

1 5256

What is the difference between a package and a plan. How does one bind 2 versions of a CICS

1 5783

What is the primary function of the Processing Program Table (PPT)?

IBM,

5 14892

What do you do if you do not want characters entered by the user to be folded to uppercase ?

IBM,

3 7990

What does it mean when EIBCALEN is equal to zeros?

ADP, IBM, L&T, Satyam, TATA,

6 77853

Un-Answered Questions { IBM MainFrame }

What is redefines clause in COBOL?

1358

Define transient data?

1094

What do you mean by the term fct?

1040

What is auto status?

1728

What do you mean by rollback?

1040

Explain referential integrity?

1165

Explain how you can characterize tables in cobol?

1118

What is the purpose of dd dummy statement?

1531

What is innodb buffer pool?

1145

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

1366

Explain the jcl exec statement?

1212

PLEASE SEND ME THE DOCUMENTS IF ANY ONE HAVE REGARDING THE IMPACT ANALYSYS,REVIEWS

2462

Outputs of explain are with matchcols = 0. What does this signify?

1120

have in 100 records in a file i want to read first 3 records and skip next 3 records and agan i want to read 3 records and again i want to skip 3 records... run a loop from record one to 10 evaluate i/3 if comes even then skip else write to output file

1578

What is dbms in ims?

1109

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