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

Are scope terminators compulsory? If they are, when?

959

Explain a linkage segment

1057

What is meant by deadlock in db2?

1255

Why do you need a secondary index in an ims?

964

What is the difference between hdam and hidam databases?

1135

What is inspect and what is it used for?

978

What do you mean by an alias?

1083

Can min or max be used with alphanumeric data?

981

List the type of locks?

936

Is the order of the when clause important in an evaluate statement? Is the order of the when clause significant in an evaluate statement?

955

What is next sentence and continue unique?

1047

What is meant by drda?

954

What do you mean by linkage section?

1009

Is it possible to move an alphanumeric incentive to a numeric field?

1001

Which is the difference between delimited by size and delimited by space?

1093

Un-Answered Questions { IBM MainFrame }

Explain the advantages of adabas?

1017

Explain the maps in cics?

1176

what is the sqlcode -501

13154

What does EIB mean in CICS?

1174

What is dbrm? When it will be created?

1029

Can you explain common systems area?

1106

Explain the jcl exec statement?

1146

What is the difference between spufi and qmf?

1132

What is the use of mdt (modified data tag)?

1053

What is the purpose of relative record data set used in vsam?

1097

Name the various locking levels available?

1093

When do you get -811 sqlcode and how to resolve it?

1006

how to pass the parameters from jcl to assembler pgm?

1109

How do u write test cases?

2068

how do you reference the esds vsam file formats from cobol programs

1216

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