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

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IBM MainFrame Interview Questions

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A Table feild is declared as Decimal(7,2). I want to insert the decimal in to this column thru cobol-db2 program. How should I declare my local input file variable or any suggestion?

IBM,

7 19191

Can we copy a sequential file to a VSAM file ? If yes, What will happen of the size of the sequential file is bigger than that of the VSAM file?

CTS, Verizon,

3 36898

What does this mean ? GRANT BIND,EXECUTE ON PLAN MK2 TO PUBLIC;

Accenture,

4 20421

1. delete is not possible in esds. why? 2. i have 10 records in a esds file and i want to delete only 1st record ..then what i have to do?.. it will not affect any sequence of the RBA. 3. why open extend is not possible in rrds vsam file?

3 19383

if not using the 'commit' when closing VSAM file,what will happend

CSC,

5 13431

what happend with out using Commit,when closing cursor and program?

CSC,

5 15038

If job is submitted with typerun = hold then how can we submit the same job?

Wipro,

3 14938

THERE IS ONE STEP AS BELOW: //STEPJS060 EXEC PGM=XYX, COND=((200,EQ,JS010),(0,NE,JS020.C),EVEN) COULD ANY ONE EXPLAIN HOW COND PARAMETER WORKS HERE? I AM CONFUSED BECOZ OF "EVEN".

2 8140

There are 5 steps in a Job. How to bypass the first step by making use of only COND Parameter and not using any Restart and IF/THEN/ELSE parameter?

IBM,

11 31699

How many module come in Ibm framework?

IBM,

1993

What is Framework & How it work?

IBM,

2127

Why banking use IBM framework?

IBM,

1 5937

What is use of IBM framework?

IBM,

2119

How IBM framework work?

IBM,

2242

Tell me abt any another framework which is challening for Ibm framework

IBM,

2104

Un-Answered Questions { IBM MainFrame }

What is the function of iebgener?

1055

what is the differences between getting the system time with eibtime and asktime command?

1139

Kindly specify the pic clause for the any bll cell type of data fields?

1223

What is the role of schema in the db2 database?

1276

What is the difference between PIC 9.99 and PIC9v99?

1339

What are Naming Standards in QMF?

1690

What are the contents of dclgen?

1113

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

1342

When are scope terminators compulsory?

1040

How errors are handled in CICS programs?

1129

in a cobol select statement for a ksds can you tell me what are the 3 possibilities for access?

1205

What is ibm db2 database?

1008

How many ways are there for initiating a transaction?

1051

How to restart a DB2 program?

1903

What is the meaning of the enq command?

1089

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