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

How do you define Task Work Area?

IBM,

1 6709

Can you use DYNAMIC calls in CICS ?

IBM,

2 7682

What is MDT? What are FSET, FRSET ?

IBM,

3 26138

How is addressability achieved to the data outside programs working-storage.?

3 7019

Explain the term Function Request Shipping?

IBM,

1 3934

For multithreading an application program need not be re- entrant(True or False).

1 4825

What is the difference between the XCTL and LINK commands?

IBM,

1 7581

What is the CICS Command that is used for reading a record from the TDQ?

IBM,

1 5079

What does EIB mean?

IBM,

3 33792

What is the purpose of the Program List Table?

IBM,

2 7125

The first step in the development of an application system is the Requirement Analysis(True or False).

1 4430

Do you require a table entry for a TSQ?

IBM,

2 7320

Explain the basic difference between Intra partition TDQ and Extra partition TDQ.

IBM,

2 17521

What command do you issue to delete a record in a transient data queue ?

IBM,

1 4944

What is the common work area (CWA)?

EDS, IBM,

1 16077

Un-Answered Questions { MainFrame }

what are decleratives in cobol?

2311

how do I preserve and clean the array?

1213

Explain adabas basic concepts. Like inverted list, address converter ,data storage?

1046

How arrays can be defined in COBOL?

1304

What is buffer pool in the db2 database?

1163

how many printer files maximum can be used in single rpg program?

1236

What is the role of schema in the db2 database?

1370

What is a base cluste?

1183

Define gdg?

1032

Suppose I have five jobs to do. But I want to hold one?

1184

What is the purpose of rollback and commit?

1295

what is the sqlcode -501

13326

What is the common work area?

1046

How is a typical db2 batch pgm executed?

1233

How is data passed from a calling program to an assembler called program?

1128

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