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

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In the COBOL SELECT statement for a KSDS what are the three possibilities for ACCESS?

3 10144

What is the COBOL RECORD KEY clause?

2 9066

What is the purpose of the FILE STATUS clause in the SELECT statement?

1 5785

If you wish to use the REWRITE command haw must the VSAM file be opened?

1 7451

Explain the meaning and syntax for the START command. ?

IBM,

4 21553

What is the meaning of dynamic processing?

2 6829

Name some common VSAM error conditions and codes. ?

IBM,

1 7074

What is the VSAM-code field?

1 4756

What is a VSAM slot?

1 5564

What is the utility program closely associated with VSAM?

1 4528

There are at least seven IDCAMS commands; name and explain each of them ?.

1 9525

What are the three levels of definition for the VSAM DEFINE?

IBM,

2 8371

What is the significance of the SHAREOPTIONS parameter?

IBM,

1 5703

What is the meaning of the DEFINE MODEL parameter?

1 5042

What is File Status in VSAM?

IBM,

1 7828

Un-Answered Questions { IBM MainFrame }

Define a path?

1092

What is adabas?

1022

How to rename a table in DB2 ?

1088

Explain the advantage of dynamic generation of acb?

3199

What is clone table?

1046

What is ook-rec?

903

What are iseries servers?

1075

What is the use of KSDS,LDS,ESDS,RRDS??what is VRRDS?? How are all these useful in realtime scenario??Plz helpme out...Its a recent question in IGATE..

8759

what do you mean by a shareoptions parameter (shr) in define cluster command?

1311

Explain path?

1009

Differentiate between ci split and ca split?

1014

How to create db2 table in mainframe?

1154

Which dd parameters are required?

1189

what is DD statement is used in JCL?

1200

State the differences between vsam and non-vsam files?

1055

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