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

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CICS (755)
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IMS (143)
IDMS (107)
Natural (81)
ADABAS (26)

REXX (60)
Assembler (68)
CLIST (6)
QMF (32)

MVS (25)
OS390 (10)
OS 2 (7)
VSAM (319)

IBM MainFrame Interview Questions

Questions Answers Views Company eMail

How do you Load a table ?? and what is Load replace ?

Xansa,

2 33532

what is a plan and how do you refer the plan in the program?

Xansa,

2 7154

why should we bind the DB2 program . What if we did not BIND a BD2 program ??

Infosys, TCS, Xansa,

9 36014

My DB2 program first read the data from a file and then it look into a table with the data it got from the file.If we did not bind the program , should the file read before SQL execution be success??

Xansa,

2 6072

what is copy pending and check pending ?

Xansa,

1 10620

what needs to be done if a table is in copy pending / check pending status?

Xansa,

5 22971

what is check point and restart Logic ? why do we go for that ??

CGI, UST, Xansa,

2 27570

I HAVE 2 TABLES ONE IS EMP_TABLE AND ANOTHER DEPT_TABLE.EMP_TABLE CONTAINS NAME,DEPTNO,DEPTNAME,LOCATION AND DEPT_TABLE CONTAINS DEPTNO,DOJ(DATE OF JOINING).I WANT TO DISPLAY NAME,DEPTNAME,DOJ AND WHO ARE JOINED BETWEN 01- JAN-2007 TO 01-JAN-2008?

Perot Systems,

6 11299

What are the differences bitween cobol and cobol-2?

Wipro,

1 8408

Program A calls program B. Will the working storage variables declared in program B be initialized every time it is called by program A or will the values be retained until the end of program A?

7 21253

I have a source program compiled with Cobol-2. The output file has a record length of 100 defined in the program but a record of 60 bytes getting written into it. i.e. The rest of 40 bytes I am not Writing anything. But it by default puts some values into the last 40 bytes. However it does not impact anything. But when Compiled the module with Enterprise Cobol the last 40 bytes were spaces as fillers. Can anyone explain?

Cognizant,

5 16878

In cursor program-1 can we create another cursor program-2 inside the cursor program-1.If yes how/no why ?

Wipro,

2 8096

IN CICS APPLICATION PROGRAM, INSTEAD OF HARDCODING MAP AND MPASET NAMES WHILE SENDING AND REIEVING ...CAN WE DO LIKE THIS ??? MOVE MAP AND MAPSET NAMES TO WORKING STORAGE SECTION VARIABLES AND USE THOSE VARIABLES WHILE SENDING AND RECIEVING MAP.IF YES, HOW CAN WE MOVE MAP INPUT , OUTPUT VARIABLES. IF ANYBODY KNOWS THIS PLEASE POST THE ANSWER

2 8537

There is a 5000 EMP in company.how we find out the 5th highest getting salary employee outof 5000 employes........

IBM,

10 17727

what is meaning by design document? who can repared for this?

TCS,

5 14813

Un-Answered Questions { IBM MainFrame }

File not opened because library is *PROD and debug is UPDPROD(*NO). ? what may be the reason? how to solve it..?

2925

When the like statement is used?

1222

What are foreign keys in db2?

1099

What is inspect in cobol ?

1293

Give the definition of COMMAREA ?

1062

How to define a directory?

975

Explain the function of the load command?

1121

Explain about logical data model of idms?

874

Explain how do you control cursor positioning?

1003

Mention the guidelines to write a structured cobol program?

1085

What are INPUT PROCEDURE and OUTPUT PROCEDURE?

1292

In a CICS program, how will you read a VSAM file?

1126

What do we mean by 'Virtual storage' for a dataset and for a JOBSTEP ? What is the significance of the following statement for a programmer 'Virtual storage results in program addresses being independent of the addresses that actually exist in a computer' ?

2020

if the submitter of a job wants to inform another user about the job completion, how can it be done?

1244

What is RRange and ARange?

2101

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