IBM MainFrame Interview Questions
Questions Answers Views Company eMail

What is a procedure?

1 4236

Can we browse or edit the GDG dataset if it is a tape entry?

4 15230

What happens if both JOBLIB and STEPLIB is specified ?

8 13536

What is order of searching of the libraries in a JCL?

4 10027

What is the difference between static call & Dynamic call ?

3 13021

What are the maximum and minimum sizes of any CONTROL AREA (VSAM datasets) ?

Patni,

2 12154

How to get cursor position from system in CICS environment ?

8 37523

How many parameters are there to a DISP statement and what are their uses ?

3 6376

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

CitiGroup,

5 31111

What does SYSIN * indicate?

2 7297

What u mean by include statement in JCL ?

3 27368

The maximum number of in-stream procedure you can code in any JCL is ?

5 13609

What is a COND parameter in JCL?

TCS,

10 60938

How many types of libraries are there in JCL ?

IBM,

2 10289

What you mean by skeleton JCl?

2 13661


Un-Answered Questions { IBM MainFrame }

Why do we code s9 (4) comp. Inspite of knowing comp-3 will occupy less space?

697


Define the necessity of run stats among the environment test?

515


File1 has 100 records and file2 has 200 records I want to copy 50 records which are in both file into file3?

490


can all users have the privilage to use the sql statement select * (dml)?

629


what how do you initialize a vsam file before any operation? A vsam with alternate index?

551






What is cics load command?

557


What is the use of trt instruction?

574


Explain various types of locks in db2?

679


What do you mean by an alias?

516


What are the retrieval sequences in ims db?

751


Explain how do you dynamically set the cursor position to a specific field?

601


What is the use of commit in db2?

623


What are the contents of dclgen?

641


Explain the difference between record occurrence and record type?

1653


Can you define aica abend?

675