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 46931

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 19251

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

IBM, Patni,

19 40917

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

Accenture, ACS, IBM,

28 111268

What is SDA used for?

7 16003

What are Triggers?

Ordain Solutions, Seabus Solutions,

14 31055

Where would you use Override Data Base File?

4 17581

What controls which printer a report goes to?

Wipro,

4 13619

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 12544

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 12377

What is the significance of UDATE?

IBM,

5 23162

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 14851

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 16521

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 11170

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 12680

Un-Answered Questions { IBM AS400 }

which of the cl command can be used to determine which logical files are dependent on a specific file?

1093

What Is The Purpose Of The "n" In The Following Calculation Specification?

1133

where can you specify an indicator in lokup operation?

1816

What is the difference between copybooks and subprocedures in as400?

1360

which are the query selection criteria, which can be given in a query?

1174

difference between sflrcdnbr and sflnxtchg?

1181

what is the command used to invoke rlu ?

1897

In AS/400 projects in Companies whats the meaning of production support team.what production support involves.also what work does development,maintenance involve what are the other teams or processes that are available for as400 project.

9075

In Which Specs Arrays, Tables & Constants Are Defined?

1171

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

2319

How to know the particular record in pf with out reading?

1067

can a join logical file be updated?

1022

how to get the cursor position?

1147

What is the difference between iter and do? We know both are used to execute set of statements repeatedly, but what is the main difference?

1025

Using %check we are checking monika in mona what is output? What is %SCAN?

1674

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