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

what is mainframe? what is the mainframe software ? what is use in s/w field?

CSE,

7 12510

what is the basic concept of mainframe? what knowledge is needed for learn this mainframe?

CSE, TCS, Wipro,

4 17044

db2 query I have one table with the following details. SNO SNAME DOJ ------ -------------------- ---------- 10 KRISH 2007-03-19 20 REDDY 2007-05-19 30 RRRRR 2007-05-19 40 BBBBB 2008-05-19 50 CCCCC 2009-05-19 60 JJJJJ 2009-05-19 70 JJJJJ 2004-05-19 i want the output in the following format:( no of students joined in each year(no nedd to consider about month and date) year count --------- ---------- 2004 1 2007 3 2008 1 2009 2

TCS,

9 14295

what will be the output of the below given query, if no matching records are found : (a.) 0 (b.) null (c.) error select Avg(salary) from TableA where Deptno = 'insurance'

Amdocs,

10 16397

How we copy a program from production region to development region.What is the process & syntax ?

CTS,

3 13677

Explain complete concept of table handling in COBOL with an example?

IBM, TCS, Wipro,

2 18826

How to test thru JCL if any file(PS or VSAM) is empty or not. I do not want to use any COBOL prog or Ezytrieve and want to do using utility.

Lehman Brothers,

10 40848

how many bytes do SPPPP999 will store?

18 23855

what is partial serch analysys in cics?

2 5570

what is check pending option

Fujitsu,

1 6298

if we are specifing joblib as well as steplib in job then at the time of execution how the process will complete

4 9283

can we use variable picture clause as xx.99 in cobol.

3 10079

Suppose there r total 10 steps. Out of which i want to execute only the 7th step. How can i do that....????

3 9133

Suppose there r 10 steps . Out fo which i want to execute 10th, 9th and 8th in reverse order without using IEBEDIT. How can i do that..???

IBM, UST,

5 17137

how will be submit 1 jcl by other jcl? means that how 'll submit one job by other job??

Steria,

3 21156

Un-Answered Questions { IBM MainFrame }

Is ibm db2 free?

1013

Define primary objective of cics?

1009

In a Natural program i used the below code for report FORMAT LS=132 PS=60 And down the line I want to change either LS/PS like FORMAT LS=120 PS=50, is it possible? How it will work?

1933

Define where and its usage?

1008

Suppose I have a ksds file. I have a records like 1,2,3,4,5,6,...100. I want to read using dynamic mode like from 10 the record onwards like, 10,12,14,16,18,....60. Wat is the command for this?

671

Which command is used to connect to a database in DB2 ? Give the Syntax.

1104

what is db2 restart?

2162

Explain how does idms communicate with cics?

906

How to pass data to a program that is coded in an exec statement?

1335

what is u r recent task in insurence project?..plz tell how to tell this.

3330

What is the mainframe computer?

943

Explain the function of //cntl statement?

1172

In job processing, what happens in conversion stage?

1197

Is it possible to move the alphanumeric variables to a numeric variable?

1221

how do you create a dataset in a jcl with the same file organisation as that of another existing dataset?

1408

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