IBM AS400 Interview Questions, Answers for Freshers and Experienced asked in various Company Job Interviews

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IBM AS400 Interview Questions

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Whether a module can consists of many procedures or it can consist of subprocedures having a main procedure?If it is possible that it can contain many individual procedures than can we have different name for complete module and how do we call this module in main modul?

Steria,

3 8356

When u create a PF and did not fill up Maint parameter, then by default which access path will the system take & why

HCL,

2 8107

i 'm new to as/400.in an interview i was asked this question.give a practical example for passing information or data through local data area. I know only that data area is an object used to store tiny bits of data or it can store one value at a time and it is used to store frequently changing values or datas.thats all i know about data area can any one tell me how local data area and user defined data area are used to pass data between jobs with a example or coding.thanks in advance.

CTS,

2 10218

what is the equivalent keyword for CHAIN opcode ??

TCS,

7 12871

what is the main use of OPNQRYF ?? in that query why we can use OVERDBF and in that OVERDBY why should we use SHARE(*YES)

IBM,

2 9244

where exactly we can use OPNQRYF ?

TCS,

3 10806

Code how to read 5th element of the array?

CGI,

2 8531

How to Convert 2010/02/11 to m/dd/yyy.. with string and without string if any other method... code

CGI,

5 10662

How u detect record is locked in Cobol/400 ? Wat is the solution for that ?

CGI,

2 13429

Hi, Please give the answer to this question? I have Phisical file with 100 records,there is no any duplicate records in this pf.Based on this pf one Logical file i have used.But this lf is viewing only 80 records only of that pf?What is the reason for this?Please give me answer?

IBM,

4 9119

how can a procedure will be added in to a srvpgm

TCS,

4 12965

what is code for reading member in rpgle when wehave like extmbr(*all) so we have 3 members in *all then i want to read first record in 2member

HCL,

2 13655

When PGMA calls PGMB for the first time PGMB executes the *INZSR. PGMB uses the RETRN operation to return to PGMA. When PGMA call PGMB the second time is the *INZSR executed?

Mphasis,

5 12947

what is meant by object lock requests,held locks and locks waiting to be applied(wrkobjlck) why should we apply for locks.Please explain sir.

IBM,

2 6808

how to handle job errors in as400 what is the command and where can we find out whether the job has any errors

Virtusa,

2 12265

Un-Answered Questions { IBM AS400 }

how do you read changed records backward in subfile?

1047

what are various techniques to pass parameters from one program to another?

1760

We have job which is running as batch. It takes atleast 06 hours to complete tht job. But I wanna do tht job with in 3 hours?

1215

how do u compile rpgle program?

1062

how many levels are there in a physical file?

1710

what is sflinz and sflrna?

1463

when would you use or not use this approach?

1471

give three main purposes of file specification ?

1667

what opcode will be used to test the zone of a character field?

1728

I have a pf, it contains 5 members, how to access particular member data from logical file?

929

what is the disadvantage of using global variable?

1147

Can we concatenate fields in physical file? If yes how can we do?

995

can you have multiple key lists for a single file ?

1615

records can be read/update/deleted with which file?

1033

what is the function of rlu ?

1610

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