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

What is the use of EVALUATE statement?

Tesco,

4 10690

What is the difference between a binary search and a sequential search?

3 8718

What is an in line PERFORM? When would you use it? Anything else to say about it?

4 9363

Difference between next and continue clause

Kanbay,

4 9797

What divisions, sections and paragraphs are mandatory for a COBOL program?

Arigo Infotech,

8 26943

What is the mode in which you will OPEN a file for writing?

4 12917

What is the difference between static call & Dynamic call?

CSC, TCS,

2 9022

What is 77 level used for ?

IBM, iGate,

12 65887

What is report-item?

IBM,

1 7003

What is the difference between SEARCH and SEARCH ALL? What is more efficient?

IBM, iFlex, Wipro,

9 34846

How do you code Cobol to access a parameter that has been defined in JCL?

3 9560

What is the different between index and subscript?

3 8443

What is Comm?

IBM, Kemper Corporation,

2 7766

COMP-3 field occupy ?

8 20622

What is the difference between a subscript and an index in a table definition?

TCS,

3 11102

Un-Answered Questions { IBM MainFrame }

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2217

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

1090

what is the JCL statement consists of?

1183

how to retrieve the instream data in sysin?

1138

What is the structure and definition for the same?

1000

How to execute a query in qmf at a particular time?

942

What is the advantage in De-normalizing tables in DB2?

1165

What are INPUT PROCEDURE and OUTPUT PROCEDURE?

1291

how can we apply for HSBC exam(Mainframe) in India??? i went to their site and was told to submit my CV ,. etc..( totally confusing...)

2381

My IMS main progam is calling Db2 subroutine ...Its giving - 923 db2 sql code..so could any one tell how to solve this issue.

3591

to use the rewrite command, how should the vsam file be opened?

1302

how do you intitiate another transaction?

1163

Explain how can an in-stream dataset be terminated?

1319

explain the means of supporting pseudo conversation programming. (Eg. Storing and restoring of states, control flow, error handling)?

1063

Where can you declare a cursor in a cobol-db2 program?

1067

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