IBM MainFrame Interview Questions, Answers for Freshers and Experienced asked in various Company Job Interviews

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IDMS (107)
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CLIST (6)
QMF (32)

MVS (25)
OS390 (10)
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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 11016

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 12535

what are the control characters used in reports

1 5482

common jcl abends??

ADP, Wipro,

2 32120

what are extents?

5 16679

what is consistency token

3 19603

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

IBM,

4 10696

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

2109

how to view clusters that has more than 10000 records

2 6086

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

4 10738

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

IBM,

4 11090

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

8 27283

How can you split a table in to exactly half?

HSBC,

7 16147

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

11 15669

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

4 17553

Un-Answered Questions { IBM MainFrame }

Mention the option used in a cics command to retrieve the response code after execution of the command?

1109

Using alternate indexes in cics program?

1021

Explain the function done by data manager?

1284

What are foreign keys in db2?

1108

explain about maximum displacement and how to cross this limit?

1149

Name all the file-open modes

1082

Explain adabas basic concepts. Like inverted list, address converter ,data storage?

996

Explain how many conditions can you include in a single handle condition command?

1034

Tell about the ams used in vsam?

1178

what is the meaning of notcat 2?

1127

What do you understand by jcl?

1055

What is the significance of addrspc parameter in exec statement?

1214

Define autostatus in idms?

851

What is the function of //jcllib statement?

1320

What are the types of record locks and how are they set?

1604

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