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 10049

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

CSE, TCS, Wipro,

4 15421

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 11347

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 13560

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

CTS,

3 12214

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

IBM, TCS, Wipro,

2 17628

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 37540

how many bytes do SPPPP999 will store?

18 18169

what is partial serch analysys in cics?

2 4699

what is check pending option

Fujitsu,

1 5323

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

4 7659

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

3 8803

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

3 7767

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 15208

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

Steria,

3 19717


Un-Answered Questions { IBM MainFrame }

Can you define mapset?

606


How to get the ddl of a table in db2?

679


Explain how do you dynamically set the cursor position to a specific field?

618


What is the maximum size of a char data type in db2?

588


What is the use of dclgen in db2?

591






What the difference is between continue and next sentence?

665


How are data passed from jcl parm to assembler program?

583


Explain the difference between pseudo-conversational and conversational?

572


Explain about open switch business continuity software?

566


Explain the function of the dd dcb keyword?

706


i want to store 20 digits . how will u do it in cobol ?

862


What is currency in idms?

600


What parameters can be used to limit the number of records written to a sysout dataset?

752


what are the codes returned by the ams (access method services) command during the execution in vsam?

767


A dd statement consists of 4 fields. Name them?

933