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IBM AS400 Interview Questions

Questions Answers Views Company eMail

difference between CHAIN and READE?

8 46875

Hello friends, i am new to AS/400. Can any one help me in AS/400 i meant say can you send me some FAQS and interview questions.

HanceInc, IBM,

7 19217

What is the benefit of using Externally Described files over Internally Described?

IBM, Patni,

19 40823

What is the difference between a Physical File & a Logical?

Accenture, ACS, IBM,

28 111049

What is SDA used for?

7 15975

What are Triggers?

Ordain Solutions, Seabus Solutions,

14 30949

Where would you use Override Data Base File?

4 17549

What controls which printer a report goes to?

Wipro,

4 13584

What are the values of NUM1 and NUM2 after executing the following code? CLONO1NO2NO3 Factorl÷÷+OpcdeFactor2+÷+ResultLenDHHiLoEq C MOVE *LOVAL NUM1 50 C MOVE *J-fIVAL NtJM2 52

Fiserv, IBM,

2 12517

1. Which Built-In-Function will you use to achieve the following functionality? CLONO1NO2NO3 Factorl÷÷+OpcdeFactor2++÷ResultLenDHHiLoEq C QTY IFLT *ZERO C QTY MULT -1 QTY C ENDIF a) %ABS b) %TRIM c) %TRIMS d) %UNS

IBM,

3 12342

What is the significance of UDATE?

IBM,

5 23126

A particular job executing on the iS is not behaving as expected and is operating in an environment in which it can be debugged. What commands would you use to debug and observe the program?

IBM,

2 14826

What is the compilation option that has to he specified while compiling an RPC program which uses a file having date data type field?

HSBC, IBM,

3 16497

2. Which of the following statement(s) explains the difference(s) between the /INCLUDE and ICOPY directives? a.) No difference, they function the same b.) ACOPY cannot be used as a conditional directive c.) IINCLUDE files cannot contain embedded SQL d.) Nesting /TNCLUDE directives is not allowed

IBM,

2 11141

3. Given the DOS Specification below and the following information: • Indicator 50 is off • No records have been written to the subfile What will be the result if the EXFMT operation code is performed on the record format CTLR? A R SUBFL A DESCRIP 101 6 1ODSPATR(UL) A DFT(’NOT FOUND’) A R CTLR SFLCTL(SUBFL) A N50 SFLDSP A SFLDSPCTL A SFLINZ A 67 SFIJEND A SFLSIZ(13) A SFLPAG(12) A ACCOUNTNO 100 S 10 a.) Only AccountNo will display b.) SUBFL will be initialized with 13 blank records c.) An I/O exception error will occur d.) The screen will display 12 records with ‘NOT FOUND’

IBM,

4 12648

Un-Answered Questions { IBM AS400 }

what is *inzsr used for?

2324

at what level s,o are defined and what they will do?

1786

There is one string as A B C and wanted to display string as Shri A Shri B Shri C, how we can do this in sql? If we have around 100 values in string like this, each value should be displayed with initials as Shri.

1175

how can I give more performance to some selected pages?

1024

what is the function of cpyf command?

1649

thanks mr.Harshad R Suryawaunshi,i'm new to as400 i think you are telling in rpgile i know only rpg400 if possible can you tell in rpg400

2311

what is the disadvantage of using global variable?

1198

what is data area and how it is used in rpg program ?

1317

where can you specify an indicator in lokup operation?

1805

Explain the difference between comp & comp-3?

952

an access path may be in which sequence?

1151

What is file access opcodes?

1354

if we tried to move year part of *iso date into a field of length 3, what will happen ?

1283

what does check opcode do ?

1848

what are the limitations of cl (compare to rpg) ?

2311

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