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

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IBM AS400 Interview Questions

Questions Answers Views Company eMail

difference between CHAIN and READE?

8 46508

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 18986

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

IBM, Patni,

19 40257

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

Accenture, ACS, IBM,

28 110116

What is SDA used for?

7 15685

What are Triggers?

Ordain Solutions, Seabus Solutions,

14 30456

Where would you use Override Data Base File?

4 17342

What controls which printer a report goes to?

Wipro,

4 13415

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 12389

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 12159

What is the significance of UDATE?

IBM,

5 22883

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 14720

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 16350

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 11008

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 12482

Un-Answered Questions { IBM AS400 }

Assume 2 users are using the same file and first user updates some record in the file. Will the 2nd user will be able to see the updated record or not?

893

How to retrieve a physical file after deleting that?

1045

what is the purpose of ovrdta and ovrata keywords ?

1443

define what a data area is along with a brief example of what it may be used for?

1615

define the purpose of the *bcat function?

1460

what is the necessary keyword needed to scroll subfile records?

1107

What is a record lock error?

1705

what is externally described file ?

1600

How to create a link between multiple maps in a mapset?

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

1033

what is the clp command to access a query/400?

2049

Explain the input procedure?

897

what is file information data structure?

2120

Which command is used to replace CDUP command in FTP IF i WANT TO USE SFTP?

2381

what is sflinz and sflrna?

1463

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