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

Xansa,

2 33545

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

Xansa,

2 7173

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

Infosys, TCS, Xansa,

9 36044

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 6089

what is copy pending and check pending ?

Xansa,

1 10622

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

Xansa,

5 22998

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

CGI, UST, Xansa,

2 27586

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 11319

What are the differences bitween cobol and cobol-2?

Wipro,

1 8430

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 21288

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 16901

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

Wipro,

2 8120

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 8552

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

IBM,

10 17775

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

TCS,

5 14844

Un-Answered Questions { IBM MainFrame }

Explain how many exceptional condition can be given in a handle condition?

1020

What is the pic clause for the data type of length option field type of data fields?

943

What is meant by deadlock in db2?

1255

Explain about area currency?

853

What is the reason behind not using select * in embedded sql programs?

1115

How many maximum base registers we can have in a program?

1031

What is the usage of comp fields in cobol?

1188

Explain the purpose of dd dummy statement?

1221

What is ibm db2 connect?

1002

what parameter in the define aix option is used to determine the maximum number of duplicate keys allowable ?

1009

i want a program using by if, evaluate , string, unstring, perform, occurs?

4722

What are host variables in db2?

1072

What is link edit in cobol?

1198

What is iseries database?

1050

What are the disadvantages of a hierarchical database?

3283

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