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

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 19484

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 37054

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

Accenture,

4 20574

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 19517

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

CSC,

5 13646

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

CSC,

5 15256

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

Wipro,

3 15097

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 8244

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 32122

How many module come in Ibm framework?

IBM,

2040

What is Framework & How it work?

IBM,

2170

Why banking use IBM framework?

IBM,

1 6025

What is use of IBM framework?

IBM,

2173

How IBM framework work?

IBM,

2288

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

IBM,

2164

Un-Answered Questions { IBM MainFrame }

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

1055

What is the function of entry sequenced data set?

1142

define cond parameter in jcl?

1332

Is ibm db2 open source?

1134

How can we read records for specific member in CL? AND rpg?

762

What db2 400?

1260

Why do you need a secondary index in an ims?

1002

Explain about logical data model of idms?

951

Explain foreign keys?

1078

Define db2 and its databases?

1118

Explain how can the attributes of one sms dataset be copied to another dataset?

1267

Differentiate between PCT and FCT.

1237

Explain the difference between dfhcommarea and tsq?

1175

Define cobol?

1484

Explore the syntax of the evaluate statement?

1020

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