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

what is pupose and meaning of the REGION keyword and what jcl statement is it associated with?

1 5916

what is the difference between static call and dynamic call?

1 22564

can we bowse or edit the GDG dataset if it is a tape entry?

4 10066

what is the purpose of SYSOUT parameter in the DD statement?

1 10359

what is a MODELDSCB?

1 4732

pls send the docs of any telecommunication mainframe project

Accent,

2202

Hi all, I have >200 members per Dataset, I need to delete 2 lines from all members of a Dataset. To do Manually it is difficult. So please tell me simple method. is there any Tool or........

2 5058

1.How can you search an entire source file for a particular field name? 2.How can you find the differences between two versions of the source for the same program? 3.What is a hidden field as it relates to a sub file? 4.How do you display a sub file that has no records in the sub file?

HCL,

8 15488

i want to see the jobs in skeleton queue in diff region. (eg. 7 regions are running means , i want to see all the jobs in 7 regions which are in skel queue using 1 command)

1 4817

How to position the cursor on a display file at a desired location.

Four soft,

5 19575

Why do you use Keep and Assume Keywords.

Four soft,

2 15879

What is normalisation?

IBM,

2 7009

I have 10 steps, I want to run STEP1 TO STEP4 then I should not run STEP5 and STEP6. Aganin I want to execute from STEP7 to STEP10. ONLY using CONDITION CODES how can we execute this process? 1. Where we can set cond codes for STEP5 and STEP6? 2. How can we execute remaining steps from STEP7 to STEP10?

2 9423

How we can update data area in cobol 400 program?

Accenture,

12 40759

What will happen if we write two STOP RUN's in a COBOL program?

Satyam,

4 12870

Un-Answered Questions { MainFrame }

What is the use of jdftval in as400?

1464

Is it possible that the redefines clause has different picture clauses compared to the one it redefined?

1215

Explain the syntax of redefine?

979

which cics command must be issued by the application program in order to gain access to the common work area (cwa)?

1185

Can I redefine an x(100) field with a field of x(200)?

1011

Explain about cursor stability?

1113

How to create 1 ddm that fetches 3 adabas files simultaneously?

991

what is program status data structure?

2521

can you please let me know if there is any walkins for COBOL/PLI/DB2/IMS/JCL in pune other than IBM and ITC infotech

2499

Explain is it possible to code goto statement in natural? If yes please provide the syntax of the same?

1051

WHAT is STORED PROCEDURE CONCEPT IN AS400 WITH EXAMPLE?

2580

What is access path in as400?

1401

what will happen if there is no secondary allocation made for datasets?

1166

What do you mean by the term fct?

1040

Define adabas?

1080

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