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

DLI Vs BMP

CTS, IBM,

13 62042

Static & Dynamic PSB

IBM,

2 11537

The first VSAM file V1 has 2 fields A and B . There is a DB2 file which has fields E and f. We need the fields A, B , E and F to another VSAM file called V2. Kindly mention the logic in procedure division in cobol..

Cap Gemini,

2 9035

What all are the changes to be made in JCL so as to do testing?

TCS,

2 8604

How is manual testing done in MF environment? what all are the steps to follow?

3 8479

which generation language is cobol

Kanbay,

4 11462

can we use full outer join with cursors declared in cobol program?

2 9207

hi is there any means of deletin a record from a ps usin cobol not using jcl?eg if i am reading a record and if some condition is matched tat particular record must be deletd fom the ps

iNautix,

5 15878

hai friends ,i have HSBc exam on this sunday,my platform is Mainframe,i have 1 year exp,pls any one send me placement papers of Hsbc and technical questions on mainframe

Citi Bank, CitiGroup, HSBC, iNautix, Wipro,

6 24220

hello friends ,i have exam in Hsbc,pls any on send me placement papers and technical questions on mainframes,thank u

HF, iNautix,

2144

Do we have any optinon to search part of integer in DB2 as we have for character Like,SUBSTR optins?

1 9114

Can I concatenate various datasets whose organization are different from each other. Lets say I want to cancatenate a PDS file, a PS file, a GDG file etc. Can You do that ?? If yes, how ? is there any separate Utility to do so ???

4 12810

Can we delete the data using IEFBR14 , IEBGENER??

Kanbay,

5 32926

When we give TYPERUN = SCAN , what are the syntax errors we get?

Kanbay,

5 16424

What is maximum length of block size?

Cap Gemini, Kanbay, TCS,

5 23501

Un-Answered Questions { IBM MainFrame }

Name the command used for terminating a browse operation?

1029

how you can access an uncataloged dataset in a JCL?

1141

when an xctl is done, does the tranid change ? Is a new task created ? Does it cause an implicit syncpoint to be issued ?

1229

a dd statement has 2 types of parameters. Name them?

1135

Explain how do you terminate an already issued delay command?

1004

Mention data types used in db2 ?

1162

With the use of an alternate index, how is a VSAM file accessed?

1096

I need exexution process for JCL programs

2277

what is search and searchall?what is the diffrence between them?give an best example?

6833

Explain ceci transaction commands?

1030

Is it possible to left uncode disp?

1207

I have to write to a outfile where the number of records in that file should be the header of that file using IMS.. can anyone help me in this issue

2550

What is the difference between PIC 9.99 and 9v99 in COBOL?

1334

What is the eib parameter?

1057

Give the name of some fields form sqlca.

1086

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