IBM MainFrame Interview Questions
Questions Answers Views Company eMail

What is the difference between COMP & COMP-3 ?

2 29472

What was removed from COBOL in the COBOL II implementation?

1679

What will happen if you code GO BACK instead of STOP RUN in a stand-alone COBOL program i.e. a program which is not calling any other program ?

3 13949

How many sections are there in data division?.

Amdocs, TCS,

10 24762

What is the difference between NEXT SENTENCE and CONTINUE?

Mphasis,

2 12679

Can you REWRITE a record in an ESDS file? Can you DELETE a record from it?

ABC, IBM, Mphasis, Wipro,

6 23695

What is the maximum length of a field you can define using COMP-3?

Complex System, Infosys,

4 34621

How do you define a variable of COMP-1? COMP-2?

3 16845

What is the difference between comp and comp-3 usage? Explain other COBOL usage?s.

IBM, Xansa,

3 35491

Explain the difference between an internal and an external sort, the pros and cons, internal sort syntax etc.

3 12263

What do you feel makes a good program?

2 5236

What are the different data types available in COBOL?

4 9777

Can JUSTIFIED be used for all the data types?

3 9527

What is the linkage section?

4 7890

What is Static and Dynamic linking ?

3 9875


Un-Answered Questions { IBM MainFrame }

What is the use of intialize verb?

735


Explain the function of //jcllib statement?

688


State the maximum value up to which volumes can be inserted to an stogroup?

595


Differentiate between the joblib and the steplib statements?

847


What is the role of the data page in the db2 database?

578






Why did you choose to work with ibm mainframe cobol programming?

619


how do you define an altindx ? How do you use altindxs in batch, cics programs?

594


How errors are handled in CICS programs?

628


Can we delete records from view?

551


What is db2 purescale?

537


When a COBOL-DB2 program in PRODUCTION is updating main tables and gone for long run, what have to do?

3109


What is meant by a ‘Transid’ ?

616


What is universal database?

607


what is s000 u4087 error? please give the all error codes in cobol,jcl.

17009


How IBM framework work?

1764