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IBM MainFrame Interview Questions

Questions Answers Views Company eMail

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 18930

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 36714

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

Accenture,

4 20238

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 19228

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

CSC,

5 13146

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

CSC,

5 14760

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

Wipro,

3 14731

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 8019

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 31140

How many module come in Ibm framework?

IBM,

1947

What is Framework & How it work?

IBM,

2054

Why banking use IBM framework?

IBM,

1 5794

What is use of IBM framework?

IBM,

2066

How IBM framework work?

IBM,

2179

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

IBM,

2045

Un-Answered Questions { IBM MainFrame }

Why do chiropractors use drop table?

1045

What happens when we move a comp-3 field to an edited (say z (9). Zz-)?

1317

List out the buffer pools in db2

1020

What is the IDD?

1495

How to take backup of table in db2?

1021

) How do u handle errors in BMS macro

1958

what are the thress bms options?

1154

what is an mdt (modified data tag)? Its menaing and use?

1034

Can we update view in db2?

945

Can a Search can be done on a table with or without Index?

1235

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

964

What is job control language?

1033

WORKING-STORAGE SECTION. 01 GROSS-PAY. 05 BASIC-PAY PIC 9(5). 05 ALLOWENCES PIC 9(3). PROCEDURE DIVISION. MOVE 1000 TO BASIC-PAY. MOVE 250 TO ALLOWENCES. DISPLAY GROSS-PAY. STOP RUN. 77 W-A PIC 9(3)V99 VALUE 23.75 77 W-B PIC ZZ9V99 VLAUE 123.45 after the statement MOVE W-A TO W-B what will be W-B's value? a.123.75 b.b23.75 (where b indicates space) c.023.75 d.invalid move

1286

Write about the self-referencing constraint?

921

what is swap-in and swap-out?

1044

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