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 16531

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 35255

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

Accenture,

4 18450

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 17962

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

CSC,

5 11200

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

CSC,

5 13021

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

Wipro,

3 13338

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 7138

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 27466

How many module come in Ibm framework?

IBM,

1540

What is Framework & How it work?

IBM,

1639

Why banking use IBM framework?

IBM,

1 4881

What is use of IBM framework?

IBM,

1676

How IBM framework work?

IBM,

1769

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

IBM,

1634


Un-Answered Questions { IBM MainFrame }

Tell me what type of files we can process thru file-aid?

529


What does db2 plan contain?

569


how many buffers are allocated to vsam ksds and esds?

705


I have a COBOL program that ACCEPTs some input data. How do you code the JCL statement for this?

690


What is runstats and reorg in db2?

789






how to do automated restart when a job abends?

839


why is there no os/2 (ecs) port of oorexx?

580


What parameter directs the output of the job log dataset?

761


Explain the hierarchy levels in jcl?

1116


How to write a IDMS code to find whose employee last name is starting with J and first name starts with H?

961


What is the disadvantage of dynamic generation of acb?

573


What does db2 stand for?

594


is there any way to execute more than one proc in the same exec statement at the same time..?

2100


What does db2 mean?

579


How to find the number of rows in db2 tables?

607