IBM MainFrame Interview Questions
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If a=1 or 2 or 3 NEXT SENTENCE ELSE move a to b. a) if A not = 1 or 2 or 3 move A to B b) if not A = 1 and 2 and 3 move A to B c) if A Not = 1 and 2 and 3 move A to B d) if A NOT = 1 or NOT=2 or NOT =3 move A to B

Accenture,

2 6935

Total no of bytes in the following 01 rec-1 02 first-group 03 a1 pic x(4). 03 a2 pic 99. 02 second-group redefines first-group. 03 A3 pic999. 03 A4 pic 999. 02 third-group. 03 A5 occurs 5 times pic 99. A)22 B)16 C)12 D)10

Accenture,

3 6769

Determine the total no of bytes in the following 01 rec1 . 02 a pic x(6). 02 b redefines a. 03 c occurs 6 times pic 9. 02 d occurs 4 times. 03 e pic x(5). 03 f pic 999. a)38. b)44 c)14 d)32

Accenture,

3 7808

subscripting can be said as A) subscripting enables us to write a move compact code in the procedure division. B) subscripting enables us to refer to any element of a table by the same data name with the facility of identifying a particular element through the values of subscript. C) Subscripting reduces the no of entries to be included in the data division D) subscripting enables us to use loops in the procedure division

Accenture,

1 4737

01 A 02 B occurs 10 times 03 C pic 999. 03 D occurs 15 times 04 E pic 999. 04 F occurs 20 times 05 G pic XXX. 05 H pic 99. Determine the total no of byte in A. A) 175 B) 15480 C) 21750 D) 9065

Accenture,

3 8348

which one of the following cannot cause more than one execution of paragraph that may be nam in statement. A) simple perform B) perform with time C) perform until D) perform varying

Accenture,

3 5513

01 T1. 02 month-day pic x(30) value ?jan,31, feb,28, mar,31, apr,30, may,31, june, 30? 02 new-day redefines month-day occurs 6 times 03 A pic xxx. 03 B pic 99. What are the content of A(3) and B(2) respectively A)mar,31 B) Feb,28 C) 28, Mar E)Mar, 28

Accenture,

1 5743

which of the following is not true about search verb A) every search stmt must contain the AT END clause B) any no of WHEN clause can be used with this verb C) this verb can only applied to a table which is defined with the OCCURS clause and INDEXED phases. D) WHEN condition is satisfied

Accenture,

2 10687

which are the following verb can be used to manipulate the value of an index name A) ADD B) MOVE C) SUBTRACT D) SET

Accenture,

4 15380

GO TO stmt which of the following is not true A) GO TO stmt is not essential in the sense that it is possible to write programs without using GO TO B) The target of the GO TO stmt being a procedure name avoiding GO TO result in a program with no procedure name C) Indiscriminate use of GO TO stmt can make the control structure program substantially complex D) Too many GO TO stmts make a program difficult to understand

Accenture, IBM,

2 5488

DB2 is a A) data base/data communication system B) data base C) RDBMS D) Programming language

Accenture,

4 7976

AGGREGATE function support by DB2. A) SUM & AVG B) SUM, MIN & AVG C) SUM, MAX, AVG , MIN &COUNT D) NONE

Accenture,

2 18960

how does the defining of a stored procedure effect the size of a DB2 data base A) it increases the size of a data base B) it decreases the size of a data base C) it does not effect the size of the data base D) it changes the table space structures

Accenture,

2 9239

what is contained in the DB2 node lock file? A) data base names B) data base users names C) license keys D) server names

Accenture,

5 13699

which authority can be granted to group of users using the GRANT stmt? A) SYSCTRL B) SYSADM C) DBCTRL D) DB ADM

Accenture,

3 8683


Un-Answered Questions { IBM MainFrame }

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

663


What is the pic clause for the hhmmss type of data fields?

505


how to access data in control blocks such as jobname?

576


Why block size is multiple of lrecl in jcl?

908


Are there any set of rules for the names of the steps used in a job? What are they?

612






Tell me what type of files we can process thru file-aid?

534


what happens if parmparameter passes zero bytes to the program

1660


What is control area?

640


Explain the function of the cics translator?

606


What does the 'ceci:cics' transactions do?

636


What is the maximum length of a single line of jcl?

826


how can we describe comp sync?

589


How can unused space allocation be returned to the system when a dataset is closed?

807


what are the various stages of job processing?

736


What are the rules employed while naming the steps in a job?

658