IBM MainFrame Interview Questions, Answers for Freshers and Experienced asked in various Company Job Interviews

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IBM MainFrame Interview Questions

Questions Answers Views Company eMail

What is the cics command level?

1056

Define an aey9 abend?

1229

Define cebr?

1108

Explain what is a cursor in cics sql processing?

1038

Explain how do you intitiate another transaction?

1068

Explain how can you accomplish breakpoint in intertest?

1030

Explain how would you resolve an asra abend?

992

Explain the difference between a package and a plan. How does one bind 2 versions of a cics transaction with the same module name in two different cics regions that share the same db2 subsystem?

1036

Explain difference between call and link?

1107

Define floating maps with illustration?

1007

Explain the difference between start and xctl?

1073

What is temporal table in db2?

1042

What does db2 mean?

1018

What is jcl in mainframe?

1201

What is the use of ikjeft1b utility in jcl?

1 4189

Un-Answered Questions { IBM MainFrame }

Define base cluster?

1014

What is database alias db2?

1129

If anyone has latest IBM Certification Dumps can you pls forwards it to me

2970

what are the common errors that occured while programming in AS/400?

1533

When output dataset space is required, what quantity categories are used?

1364

Why do we use cursor?

1105

What are the contents of a dclmgen?

1131

What is hierarchical database?

3724

How do you code cobol to access a parameter that has been defined in jcl? And do you code the parm parameter on the exec line in jcl?

1203

What is the main function of key-sequenced data set?

1025

I want my job (careerride) to be executed in 1 minute and 2 seconds. How do I do that?

1238

How many bytes does a s9(7) comp-3 field occupy ?

951

What are the retrieval sequences in ims db?

1356

What kind of database is db2?

1038

How do you concatenate the firstname and lastname from emp table to give a complete name?

1077

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