IBM AS400 Interview Questions
Questions Answers Views Company eMail

difference between CHAIN and READE?

HCL,

8 45114

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 18045

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

IBM, Patni,

19 38033

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

Accenture, ACS, IBM,

28 106565

What is SDA used for?

7 14548

What are Triggers?

Ordain Solutions, Seabus Solutions,

14 28300

Where would you use Override Data Base File?

4 16485

What controls which printer a report goes to?

Wipro,

4 12761

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 11800

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 11438

What is the significance of UDATE?

IBM,

5 21986

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 14091

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 15634

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 10312

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 11687


Un-Answered Questions { IBM AS400 }

can we use ASCII ,CDUP,SENDPASV commands in SFTP?

3379


what is the maximum number of subfiles that can specified in a display file ?

1423


What is the draw back of Procedures? why we are going to Modules?

1485


Explain the input procedure and output procedure?

714


What is open data path?

773


how will you display a particular page in subfile ?

1392


how to pick up the changed records every time in a subfile after the first change made ?

1476


how do I preserve and clean the array?

870


Where the QTEMP library will get created? if the the answer is QSYS, then howcome more than one job can create same library name(QTEMP) in QSYS? what is the uniqueness of QTEMP? For example, run the below command in different workstation WRKOBJ QSYS/QTEMP And take 8 in the option to check the description. both will have different info. so where(which LIB) exactly the QTEMP is stored?

7961


Define redefine?

881


What are fillers? What is the actual use of fillers? With mall/simple example?

742


What is dynslt?

999


what is *iso date format?

848


how to run other job when one job is active?

796


different type of cursor?

845