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

What is the difference between Structured COBOL Programming and Object Oriented COBOL ?

1 7118

What is a scope terminator? Give examples.

2 9254

In an EVALUATE statement, can I give a complex condition on a when clause?

2 13461

What are different file OPEN modes available in COBOL?

Sun Life,

4 23668

The maximum number of dimensions that an array can have in COBOL-85 is ?

11 31842

What is the difference between performing a SECTION and a PARAGRAPH?

Accenture, Patni,

5 33576

In a COBOL II PERFORM statement, when is the conditional tested, before or after the perform execution?

3 8688

SIGN TRAILING SEPARATE field occupy ?

3 22911

How do you define a sort file in JCL that runs the COBOL program?

Syntel,

6 30071

What is file status 39 ?

JPMorgan Chase,

10 50105

What are the pertinent COBOL

IBM,

2509

What is COMP SYNC?

3 12417

What is the difference between CONTINUE & NEXT SENTENCE ?

2 7952

How to execute a set of JCL statements from a COBOL program?

Patni, Syntel,

2 14380

What is SSRANGE, NOSSRANGE ?

5 59218

Un-Answered Questions { IBM MainFrame }

How to fetch the last row from the table in SQL (db2)?

1590

What do you understand by the term job time – out and how can you overcome that?

969

What is runstats db2?

967

How do I create a view in db2?

976

Define where and its usage?

950

Explain the function of the cics translator?

988

How errors are handled in CICS programs?

1067

Discuss record management in vsam?

910

Explain how can values be passed from the job stream to an executable program?

1132

What is RRange and ARange?

2055

How can we find that module can be called – whether DYNAMICALLY or STATICALLY?

1169

What is reorg?

1072

before altering a table is it necessary to lock ? if lock what is it ? how to do ? ifi want to lock a table what is that command ?

2125

I have 60 steps in the JCL and want to Execute Only First from PROC by overriding in JCL ?

1788

what is use of dcb parameter in dd statement?

1241

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