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MainFrame Interview Questions

Questions Answers Views Company eMail

what is difference between call and link ?

IBM,

3 14564

How To Set MDT(Modified Data Tag) Thru Application Program? (Dynamically)?

IBM,

2 20275

Explain re-entrancy as applies to CICS.

IBM,

1 5186

What is the CICS supplied transaction which performs syntax checking of a CICS command?

3 7550

What is transient data?

IBM,

1 6085

How are programs reinitiated under CICS ?

ITC Infotech,

1 6864

In which table would you make an entry for a BMS map?

IBM,

2 10159

What is task control and what are the CICS commands associated with it?

IBM,

2 7099

Explain the difference among the EXEC LINK, EXEC XCTL and Cobol II static call statements in CICS.

2 8807

What CICS command would you use to read a VSAM KSDS sequentially in ascending order?

1 8707

Which command is used to release a record on which exclusive control is gained?

1 7480

What is the command that is used to delay the processing of a task for a specified time interval

1 4723

What is interval control and what are some of the CICS commands associated with it?

IBM,

2 9693

When you compile a CICS program, the (pre)compiler puts an extra chunk of code. Where does it get stored

1 5776

What is the error condition that is set when the file specified in the NAME option is not in the FCT?

UHG,

1 6909

Un-Answered Questions { MainFrame }

In an sql table that is embedded, what is the procedure to retrieve rows that are part of a db2 table?

1054

What is integrated data dictionary?

882

What are the common vsam error conditions and codes?

1043

if we display var1 then what will b displayed in below condition. 77 var1 pic s9(2) value -10. 77 var1 pic s9(2) value -11. " " " -12. " " " -13. -14 ... ... -19.

6465

What does reorg do in db2?

989

which is the cics control program that provides communication services between user written application programs and terminals?

945

what is program status data structure?

2292

How is record management performed in vsam?

1075

What is a mainframe?

931

is it there an easy way to determine if an html section is available to issue a wrtsection upon?

928

What is performance tuning db2?

1015

State the difference between jes2 and jes3?

963

What is an area sweep?

837

Why do we need integrated cics translator?

998

What is idms-restart ?

1437

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