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

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MainFrame Interview Questions

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what is the maximumm length of account information in job card of a jcl?

Accenture,

8 16745

What is EIBCALEN? Why it is used?

ADP,

9 37670

What is the RPG cycle?

CSC,

3 20991

where we can declare the files in fct and pct and ppt and rct pls give clear structure

IBM,

1 8438

abt ssa.purpose of ssa

IBM,

3 8477

I have a Physical File name 'File1', which is present in two libraries named 'LIB1' & 'LIB2'. These 2 libraries are listed in the library list. Would like to access data from this file from these two libraries using RPG program. How to do this, any idea?

4 11661

If i have updated few fields of Adabas file using UPDATE command, and after that i used display to see that field get updted or not. If in Display it showing nothng or record did not get updated then what can be the possible reasons?

Satyam, TCS,

2 10832

What is the significance of DBID used in Adabs?

1 10953

i want to learn mainframes. i completed MCA ,whats the future of mainframes

5 8693

How to get Top 10 Salaries from a Table

Accenture, HTC,

11 27732

The PGMA calls PGMB.PGMB generates a report.The report should contain the called program name(PGMA).How do i get the called program name in PGMB to print it on the spool file?(calling program name should NOT be hard coded or passed as parameter to called program?

6 11835

what is difference between DSPFD and DSPFFD?please give me real senario with good example?

1 18494

Hi,Please give me complete code with this logic. The question is how to read the records from a file with load an array of size with error condition? (The logic is Z-Add 0 IDX *LOVAL SETLL FILE READ FILE 99 *IN9 DOWEQ *OFF IDX ANDLT 99 ADD 1 IDX MOVE FIELD ARR,IDX READ FILE 99 ENDDO)please give me complete code with explanation?

1 4724

Hi, Can anybody give me real sinario for SFLRCDNBR?with example?

2 14355

Re: 01 NAME1 PIC X(13) VALUE "COBOL PROGRAMMING". 01 NAME2 PIC X(13). now I want to display the value of NAME1 in reverse order i.e value should be displayed as "GNIMMARGORP LOBOC" HOW can I do that ??? please let me know if any one knows it.

IBM,

2 9447

Un-Answered Questions { MainFrame }

What does db2 plan contain?

974

What is schema in db2?

976

how do you reference the variable block file formats from cobol programs

1197

What is the term “where” for?

966

How is record management performed in vsam?

1087

Which dd parameters are required?

1125

How to pass the parameter in parm using linkage section ? (syntax)?

1088

in order to execute step2 a job after a return code of 8 in step1, what condition you will code in step2?

2654

Under idcams, multiple functions can be executed, each of which returns a condition code. What will be the condition code returned to the operating system?

988

How to pass data to a program that is coded in an exec statement?

1285

What is meant by mpp mode?

1027

What are various search techniques in cobol? Explain.

1032

What are types of indexes?

1009

Can we call instream to catalog and catalog to instream?

1102

What is universal database?

1037

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