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

if i have 3 fields and i declare IC for all of them .. Then where will the cursor after sending map? pls give explanation (it will be so kind)

CICS,

5 11208

i have the job which has written updated 100 records into the table and for 101th record it got abended and i want to start the job again and should wirte from 101th record not from 1st record..how to do it..?

6 12744

what are the control characters used in reports

1 5537

common jcl abends??

ADP, Wipro,

2 32234

what are extents?

5 16857

what is consistency token

3 19730

if one db2 pgm calls another db2 pgm. how many plans do we need. what r the steps involved..

IBM,

4 10834

can any body give me any website for getting help on mainframe projectts in banking domain.

2153

how to view clusters that has more than 10000 records

2 6188

what is the input to PLAN? what is the input to DBRM?

4 10899

if you have big pgm. during compilation is abends with (soc7)how do you know which line has soc 7 error.

IBM,

4 11255

How to send notification to multiple users through jcl???

8 27548

How can you split a table in to exactly half?

HSBC,

7 16402

1.Can we define condition-name conditions in FD entry.

11 16081

how to create a member or sequential dataset through tso command??

4 17724

Un-Answered Questions { IBM MainFrame }

can any one exaplin about Decision Tables in test region with good example

2856

What is the syntax for seeing the columns and data types of a table in the db2 database?

1241

What is the difference between fixed length and variable length records?

936

how to access data held on the jes spool?

1113

How are the next sentence and continue different from each other?

1343

What is job control language?

1152

Explain the difference between a schema and a subschema in idms?

896

What is check constraint in db2?

1169

Can you define a gdg?

1055

Explain how do you terminate an already issued delay command?

1047

Explain storage architecture of idms.

914

What is the advantage of creating the acbs well ahead of time?

1085

Name a few IBM utility programs, and explain its function.

5039

how could you write a program in a structured format?

1054

Mention data types used in db2 ?

1207

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