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Questions Answers Views Company eMail

what is difference between call and link ?

IBM,

3 14760

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

IBM,

2 20393

Explain re-entrancy as applies to CICS.

IBM,

1 5289

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

3 7705

What is transient data?

IBM,

1 6177

How are programs reinitiated under CICS ?

ITC Infotech,

1 6959

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

IBM,

2 10317

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

IBM,

2 7200

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

2 8914

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

1 8789

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

1 7583

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

1 4799

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

IBM,

2 9827

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

1 5900

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

UHG,

1 7040

Un-Answered Questions { MainFrame }

What parameters are used to control the free space in DB2?

1056

What is NOTCAT ?

1334

What is bind and rebind in db2?

1139

is it required that primary key values have to be unique? Do alternate key values have to be unique?

1054

Explain about logical data model of idms?

879

Explain the difference between the into and the set option in the exec cics receive map command?

1122

What is bms map?

1204

Write a program to explain size error.

1199

How do I import a csv file into db2?

991

how do you read changed records backward in subfile?

1101

what are different record spacing keywords in rlu ?

1936

What is the difference between run mode and addressing mode?

1249

What is a transid?

1085

How is Telon(CA-Telon) used to build map?

4612

what is a jcl?

1139

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