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IBM MainFrame Interview Questions

Questions Answers Views Company eMail

What is the common work area?

991

Define communication area?

997

Define exec cics retrieve?

1185

Explain the difference between and exec cics xctl and exec cics start command?

1150

What are the common tables in cics and their usage?

1015

Explain the function of the terminal control table?

1012

Name the three ways available for a program to position the cursor on the screen?

1092

What is cics load command?

1074

How can you access esds files from cics?

1108

Explain the difference between physical map and symbolic map?

994

What are the cics commands associated with task control?

998

Tsqs can be written in the main storage or auxiliary storage? State true or false

1 1579

What is a cics task?

1063

Explain the different ways of initiating transaction in cics?

950

Explain the difference between temporary storage queue (tsq) and transient data quene (tdq)?

997

Un-Answered Questions { IBM MainFrame }

Distinguish among erase, erase permanent, erase selective and erase all?

1669

Mention the guidelines to write a structured cobol program?

1096

What are union and union all?

983

is oorexx compatible with ibm object rexx?

1005

What is the need to code commits in batch programs?

1152

Code the related portions of cics/cobol-i programs to gain addressability to twa area assigned to a particular task. Assme that the size of twa area is 300bytes. What are the advantages if cobol-ii is used in the place of cobol?

1141

What statement can be used to send data to another mvs jes3 node?

1647

What does the sample library of uni-rexx consist of?

1073

) how do u code after getting data?

2155

What is scrollable cursor in db2?

1056

What is the IDD?

1554

How can you quickly find out the # of rows updated after an update statement?

1049

What kind of error is trapped by on size error option?

1247

i want to learn mainframe..any websites and material to learn from basic..? my mail id : rajeswaribe2010@gmail.com

2222

how you can access an uncataloged dataset in a JCL?

1141

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