IBM MainFrame Interview Questions, Answers for Freshers and Experienced asked in various Company Job Interviews

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IBM MainFrame Interview Questions

Questions Answers Views Company eMail

How do I access data in control blocks such as jobname?

1 8224

How do I access data held on the JES spool?

TCS,

3 19342

What do unusual return codes such as -3 and 0196 mean?

2 9165

How do I pass parms to my ISPF Edit macro

Wipro,

2 16687

what is swap-in and swap-out? What is address space in MVS? What is the size of the address space in KBs for 16 bit address space?

HCL, IBM,

12 56733

I WORKING WITH VSAM AND CICS WHEN I AM DEFINING MY FILE IN THE FCT .I GOT ERROR LIKE "CDS IS FULL". WHAT ITS MEAN

Keane India Ltd,

4 14586

I have TSO dataset profile set to automatic recovery on. After the system disconnects unexpectedly, when I log back on to TSO, I receive an error every time I go into edit with 'automatic recovery' in the title. The options are 1.) enter 2.) end 3.) defer 4.) cancel. No matter which option I choose, I am thrown back into the 'automatic recovery' screen the next time I go into edit on any dataset. How do I get the message to go away?

5 15963

How to convert bunch of words in a line to relvant ASCII values?

2 5779

How to covert given string into ASCII value in COBOL/MF COBOL

CTS, IBM, iFlex,

3 15239

How to delete a front spaces in a data-name/variable in cobol Example:- 01 data-name-1 PIC x(20) value " cobol language". 01 data-name-2 PIC x(20). MOVE data-name-1 to data-name-2. would like the value of data-name-2 is "cobol language".

3 8455

Please let me know how the Eject verb works for page break.. I want to know the code, how it is used.

3 7610

Can anyone tell me the syntax for printing two files at two different destinations in a single step?

3 8399

How to delete leading spaces/blank in COBOL ? Example:- 01 data-name-1 pic x(220) " English is a language". I would like to delete leading spaces.

Financial Services,

7 78305

Wat is the difference between NEXT and CONTINUE statement in cobol,can any one explain with example.

Deloitte,

11 60033

In my job I have 6 steps. Step01,02,03...step06. after executing step02 i want to skip step03 and want to execute step04. and once step04 is done then I want to go back and execute step03. once step03 is completed I want execute step05, 06 and so on... can any one tell me how do i do that???

Perot Systems,

10 20592

Un-Answered Questions { IBM MainFrame }

How do you run a COBOL batch program from a JCL? How do you run a COBOL/DB2 program?

1332

What is monosysplex?

829

What is db2 command?

1092

What is bind package and plan in db2?

1111

What does it mean by Restart and Checkpoint in JCL ? How are checkpoints being taken and what is their usage ? How to use Checkpoint macro on a JOBSTEP ?

9809

What are the types of processes to create a map in cics?

1100

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

2598

what do you mean by a upgrade set in vsam?

1130

What is meant by deadlock in db2?

1325

Can we move alphanumeric incentive to the numeric field?

1127

how can we repair a soc-7 error?

1086

What is a trigger in the db2 database?

1147

How can the duplicate values be eliminated from db2 select?

1162

what is “Cond= even” and “Cond=only”?

1374

What are the different dataset organizations used in vsam?

1057

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