IBM MainFrame Interview Questions
Questions Answers Views Company eMail

What are the kinds of job control statements?

3 6749

What is the meaning of keyword in JCL? What is its opposite?

1 6598

Describe the JOB statement, its meaning, syntax and significant keywords?

1 4209

Describe the EXEC statement, its meaning, syntax and keywords?

2 4812

Describe the DD statement, its meaning, syntax and keywords?

2 8102

What is a PROC? What is the difference between an instream and a catalogued PROC?

2 11083

What is the difference between a symbolic and an override in executing a PROC?

2 12359

What is RESTART? How is it invoked?

HSBC,

8 21079

What is a GDG? How is it referenced? How is it defined? What is a MODELDSCB?

3 8021

Explain concatenating datasets?

CTS,

2 8684

What is the difference between specifying DISP=OLD and DISP=SHR for a dataset?

2 7922

What is MOD and when would you use it?

3 6128

What are the keywords associated with DCB? How can you specify DCB information? What is the OS precedence for obtaining that DCB information, ie. where does the system look for it first?

2 7740

How do you designate a comment in JCL?

1 8696

What is the meaning of the EXEC statement keyword, COND? What is its syntax?

2 5023


Un-Answered Questions { IBM MainFrame }

What is db2 optimizer?

763


in my project..TEST is db2 8.1 version In PROD it is 7.1 if i do REORG in TEST.. can I use the same REORG jcl with out modification in PROD region (this is DB2 8.1 )? if not, what modification i need to do in my REORG control card?

1617


How to execute 2nd and 4th steps among 5 steps in jcl proc?

743


) How do u handle errors in BMS macro

1498


List out the buffer pools in db2

620






What is plan in cobol db2?

580


What is next sentence and continue unique?

562


Define predicate?

638


How do you use altindxs in batch, cics programs?

571


How do I optimize a query in db2?

609


Can you explain differences between temporary storage queue (tsq) and transient data queue (tdq)?

584


What are the cobol coding sheets?

655


What is the tcp in the cisc?

585


what is db2 restart?

1684


What are the building blocks used in vsam datasets?

561