IBM MainFrame Interview Questions
Questions Answers Views Company eMail

What is the improvement to COND= in the latest version of MVS?

3 6351

What is the purpose of the PARM keyword in the EXEC statement?

3 8128

What is the purpose and meaning of the REGION keyword and what JCL statement is it associated with?

IBM,

3 26692

What is the purpose and meaning of the TIME keyword and what JCL statement is it associated with?

1 4996

What is the meaning of data definition name (ddname) and dataset name (dsname) in the DD statement?

2 8208

How is the keyword DUMMY used in JCL?

4 11284

What does the keyword DCB mean and what are some of the keywords associated with it?

ITC Infotech,

3 8181

What is the difference between BLKSIZE and LRECL?

3 15676

Can you execute a PROC from another PROC?

Keane India Ltd,

8 25849

What will happen if you attempt to restart a job in the middle of a JCL // IF .... // ENDIF?

4 9136

How many positional parameters are there in job statement?

4 14331

What are three parameters you can specify on Job statement as well as on exec stmt ?

1 6395

How can you trap abends in the JCL?

3 14381

How do you restart a step in JCL?

HSBC,

12 90723

How do you pass parameters to the program as the job is being executed ?

2 6089


Un-Answered Questions { IBM MainFrame }

Is the primary key a clustered index?

610


a set statement is used to define commonly used symbolic across job steps or procedures. It initializes the previous values in the symbolic names. It has to be defined before the first use of the symbolic names in the jcl. State whether true or false?

619


How do I delete a table in database?

599


What does db2 mean?

587


Explain the difference between external subroutine and subprogram?

616






Define declaration generator (dclgen).

667


How can you access qsam (seq) files from cics?

627


How to List the Available Tables?

1276


Can anybody tell what is tool used to generate the list of PROCS used in JCL to generate a PROCTREE

1969


EXPLAIN MAIN FRAME TESTING PROCESS...HOW TO FIX THE MAINFRAME BUGS?

2059


Explain how do you access storage outside your cics program?

512


What is an OOK-Rec?

1221


What is a transid?

575


HOW to change the coloumns in XREF?

1573


If a ceo wants to see all employees of the company from an online screen. How will be the design of the map from the developer point of view?

590