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

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MainFrame Interview Questions

Questions Answers Views Company eMail

how will be submit 1 jcl by other jcl? means that how 'll submit one job by other job??

Steria,

3 20997

Can you tell recent requirement(s) you handled with your project? Requirements based on Banking Application.

ITC Infotech,

2 6632

what is dynamic array in cobol? what is the difference b/w array and table in cobol?

2 21257

When search all is used in cobol program without sorted input data?

CGI, Principal Finance,

6 14424

Can we create VSAM file by using IEBGENER?

Principal Finance,

4 12632

Can we use goto statement in inline_perform ?

IBM,

5 10277

Can we use select * statement in cobol program without giving field names ???

Zensar,

3 11584

what is the difference between occurs and occurs depending on? i dont think so there is the difference in storage..then why we should use occurs depending on?

TCS, Tech Mahindra,

9 29923

why we create view.

5 9915

I am tryin to select one records(SQL) using Rexx.Here is the code ADDRESS DSNREXX "EXECSQL FETCH C1 USING DESCRIPTOR :TBSQLDA" IF SQLCODE = 0 THEN DO LINE = '' DO I = 1 TO TBSQLDA.SQLD LINE = LINE TBSQLDA.I.SQLDATA END I SAY LINE END ADDRESS DSNREXX "EXECSQL CLOSE C1" ADDRESS DSNREXX 'DISCONNECT' i am getting the following errors and also i dont know wr to see the ouput.Can anyone please hlep me in solving this? 28 +++ ADDRESS DSNREXX 'DISCONNECT' Error running DB2REXX, line 28: Incomplete DO/SELECT/IF

Syntel,

2 11076

quary for 1> fetch last record 2> fetch in reverse order 3> fetch last 5 row 4> fetch second last record (their is no primary key) i think concept of count can be use for this in 4th

5 10324

can we use go to statement inline-perform?

IBM,

7 12876

When search all is used in cobol program without sorted input data

3 10351

Which is the DL/I function used in CICS-IMS program? IBM

IBM,

3 10345

1) Can we declare a Display file in CL? 2) How many no. of files can be declared in a CL? 3) What is Non-Join Logical file and its importance?

Cognizant,

4 24113

Un-Answered Questions { MainFrame }

does uni-rexx give me any capabilities designed specifically for the unix environment?

933

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

1028

how do u start your process after conducting impact analysis ?

2076

How you can characterize tables in cobol?

1150

What is the term bms in cics?

1133

Why is free space left in ksds dataset?

1066

What is a Foreign Key?

1042

In case if at some point of time db2 is down, would that impact the pre-compilation process of a db2-cobol program?

993

What Is Default Data Type (if You Define Decimals '0') In Physical File?

1777

the output from my cgi is correctly interpreted by ms internet explorer, whereas netscape navigator would display it as a plain text. What should I do to have also netscape interpreting the html output from my cgi?

1010

What is db2 and what is the use of db2 optimizer?

997

Explain how can you do the explain of a dynamic sql statement?

1067

What is table space in db2?

964

Is it possible to port existing applications from the mainframe or os/2? Are there major changes required to do this?

853

How can we arrange duplicate records in a file?

1022

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