IBM MainFrame Interview Questions
Questions Answers Views Company eMail

what is the difference between start and startbr?

2 10911

hi provide info about any real time requirement in health care services mainframe applications bye ramya

ACS,

2 3683

I just want to ask why does the variable I passed in a dclgen of sql that has a data type of varchar which has a maximum length is 250 is truncated,, Here is the code.. DCLGEN of rsauud01 table 01 dataarea 43 data-area-len pic s9(4). 43 data-area-text pic x(250). MYVARIABLE. 01 DATAAREA1 pic x(250). move 250 to data-area-len of dataarea of rsauud01 MOVE DATA-AREA1 TO data-area-text of dataarea of rsauud01 --- but it is always trucated everytime I insert it in the table by the way it is a cobol-cics program

2 4665

When CISZ is declared as 4096 at cluster level,is this true that data will have 4096 and index will have default?????

Wipro,

1 13772

what r the types of perform statement

4 29619

In a program, variables are used but no DB2 involved in it. Can you call it as host variables??

EDS,

4 6897

i have 1000 records in input file and i want to sort it and the first 200 records to be placed in output file. how to do that??

L&T,

14 22726

what is SYSPLEX,PARALLEL SYSPLEX & MONOSYSPLEX ?

IBM, TCS,

3 19307

is there any other way to install s/w in mainframe apart from smp/e system?

2317

what is the general use of PARM? Give an explanation about the system defined parameters that could be passed through this PARM like XREF,LIST,LET,APOST,RENT etc..

Cognizant,

3 11423

why jobstep can't be more than 255 and for GDG has max limit 255 . Is there any relation between the two

IBM, Perot Systems,

1 7052

If a jcl has just 1 step and the input file to this does not exist, then what will happen if we submit this job?

3 8745

Hi All, Can anyone tell me how we can MOVE value of a X(19) variable to a S9(17) COMP-3 variable? Answer with an Example will be of great help.

EDS,

6 24976

Hi All, how is sign is stored in S9(17) comp-3 variable. Answer with an Example will be of great help.

EDS,

5 13920

What is MDT ? How it is related FSEAT & FRESET? what is the meaning of MDT on.. pls ans With explanation is will be more helpfull thank you

2 12162


Un-Answered Questions { IBM MainFrame }

What is the role of data manager in the db2 database?

649


How arrays can be defined in COBOL?

663


Is db2 a database?

574


Explain how do you access storage outside your cics program?

512


What does db2 stand for?

598






Define RCT.

739


How and when does the db2 enforces the unique key?

615


how can you define a dataarea(DTAARA) IN RPG? Which spec you define it C-spec/D-spec?

1408


what are the common errors that occured while programming in AS/400?

1113


What is cursor in dbms?

593


What is currency in idms?

599


What is the device independent method to indicate where a record is stored?

586


how do you reference the variable block file formats from cobol programs

686


What is a page in idms?

506


Describe the cobol database components?

681