IBM MainFrame Interview Questions
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I have 20 steps in a job... step01, 02....step17...step20. For some reason I want to execute step17 only if the return code for all the previous steps are less than or equal to 4. otherwise if return code for any of the previous 16 steps is greater than 4, then step17 should be bypassed. How do I do that ?? how and in which step should i formulate COND parameter

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I have PS flat file with 14 records. I want to read from 4th to 9th record and want to write those 6 records (4th record to 9th record) to another PS file (output file). there is no key defined in the input file. I just want read a certain Consecutive records. can any one please give me the procedure division Coding for this. I have coded the below coding but the READ-PARA is performing only 1 time even though I have 14 records in my input file (i.e FILE-1): PROCEDURE DIVISION. A000-SECTION. MOVE 0 TO I. OPEN INPUT FILE-1. IF CHECK-KEY1 > 0 DISPLAY "OPEN ERROR FOR FILE-1, CODE IS:" CHECK-KEY1 END-IF. OPEN EXTEND NEWFILE-1 IF CHECK-KEY3 > 0 DISPLAY "OPEN ERROR FOR NEWFILE-1 COD IS" CHECK-KEY3 END-IF. PERFORM READ-PARA THRU EXIT-PARA UNTIL EOF-REC = 'YES'. DISPLAY " FINALLY OUT OF LOOP" CLOSE FILE-1 CLOSE NEWFILE-1 STOP RUN. READ-PARA. ADD 1 TO I READ FILE-1 AT END MOVE 'YES' TO EOF-REC IF I > 3 AND < 10 PERFORM WRITE-PARA ELSE DISPLAY "NOT IN RANGE" END-IF. EXIT-PARA. EXIT. WRITE-PARA. WRITE NEW-REC FROM FILE1-REC.

IBM,

8 33093

Can we install 2 different versions of Db2 on same mainframe?

3 7859

01 NAME1 PIC X(13) VALUE "COBOL PROGRAMMING". 01 NAME2 PIC X(13). now I want to display the value of NAME1 in reverse order i.e value should be displayed as "GNIMMARGORP LOBOC" HOW can I do that ??? please let me know if any one knows it.

FirstApex, NIIT,

11 25365

period is missing in the cobol program which error we getting

TCS, Tesco,

5 24471

What is Natural?

TCS,

4 11426

I have two sequential files, FILE-1 and FILE-2. FILE-1 contains 2 columns(A,B) and FILE-2 contains 3 columns (C,D,E).I want an output file, FILE-3 which has all five columns with duplicates eliminated from column A.

3 8206

after udatingg first 110 rows, my job abends. now how do i change my cobol program so that when i restart the Job it will start updating from 111th row ( i.e in next run I di=ont want to update those 110 rows which are already been updated in the first run before job abend)

Allianz, Wipro,

7 24404

I have a DB2 table which has 1000 rows.after udatingg first 110 rows, my job abends. Now what I have to do if I want to restart the job next time so that it should start updating from 111th row (without updating first 110 rows again).

Cap Gemini, Wipro,

10 54839

what is the default region size if I dont specify region parametre in my job card ( I know that if I specify region=0k or 0M, then the job will occupy all he available resources at the time of job execution), but I want to know the defult value for "region" paramatre.

BirlaSoft, Infosys,

5 21204

Determine the total no of bytes in the following. 01 rec1. 02 a pic x(6) 02 b redefines a. 03 c occus 6 times pic 9. 02 d occurs 6 times pic 9. 03 e pic x(5) 03 f pic 999.

12 15323

what is the probability of a complete system distortion under high end low performing multiprocessor job?

SunGard,

2037

WORKING-STORAGE SECTION. 01 VAR1 COMP-2 VALUE 0. PROCEDURE DIVISION. MOVE 10.2115 TO VAR1. DISPLAY 'VAR1 =' VAR1. GOBACK. 10.2115 is stored as .10211499999999996E 02 in OS VS Cobol 10.2115 is stored as .10211500000000000E 02 in ecobol. Any reason why?

TCS,

3 8425

HAI I HAVE FINISHED MAINFRAME TRAINING.IM B.E 2006 PASSED OUT FRESHER.IF U HAVE ANY OPENINGS FOR MAINFRAME FRESHERES PLEASE CONTACT MY EMAIL ID MY ID IS sankari_hema2005@yahoo.com

3 4865

Can I copy the FB (fixed Block) record length file to a VB (variable Block)record length file and Vise Versa? If Yes then how ? is that thru one of the JCL utility ?

3 41897


Un-Answered Questions { IBM MainFrame }

How can a fb file convert to vb file using sort program?

815


What is the format of comment statement?

688


What is dbrm? What it contains? When it will be created?

597


What are the building blocks used in vsam datasets?

577


Differentiate between hdam and the hidam databases?

547






In sms datasets, what is the function of the dd avgrec keyword?

660


What are the advantages and disadvantages of a hierarchical database?

633


How can you validate Sql errors during cursor operation in db2 pgms and where do you code?

1718


Can you define bms?

625


Where do you specify them?

688


What is the difference between general testing and mainframe testing?

565


Can we insert update delete in view?

583


Suppose there are 2 Input files Infile-1 and Infile-2. Both the Files contain Employee Records. You need to compare both the files and Write the Common Records in third file named Outfile. How can we do this using File-Aid?

2229


What is the physical storage length of time data type?

681


Explain about open switch business continuity software?

571