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 5830

what is the difference between static call and dynamic call?

1 22464

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

4 9928

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

1 10267

what is a MODELDSCB?

1 4665

pls send the docs of any telecommunication mainframe project

Accent,

2166

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 4945

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 15230

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 4739

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

Four soft,

5 19391

Why do you use Keep and Assume Keywords.

Four soft,

2 15765

What is normalisation?

IBM,

2 6881

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 9281

How we can update data area in cobol 400 program?

Accenture,

12 40189

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

Satyam,

4 12722

Un-Answered Questions { MainFrame }

what is the role of the is numeric clause?

1093

What is the function of finish in idms?

885

Define where and its usage?

1006

how to do automated restart when a job abends?

1383

example for sub strings ? and refernce modifications whit output pls

2317

Where & How Do You Code Identifier In Jcl?

1285

How to code the db2 queries using rexx?

991

What is frset?

1029

Explore the syntax of the evaluate statement?

955

When will a port of ooRexx to "XYZ" be available?

884

Is it possible to move the alphanumeric variables to a numeric variable?

1219

How to update data area in cobol 400 program?

1048

What is idms-restart ?

1483

How to List the Available Tables?

1686

What are the 2 sqlcodes that are returned?

1189

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