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 flatfile?what is the use of this file?where we can use usualy?what is the advantage of this?

Cognizant,

2 12951

what is data structure?how many types of data structers?

4 24432

How many types of jobs?what is difference between interactive and batch and submited jobs?

IBM,

3 16797

Which command is used to replace CDUP command in FTP IF i WANT TO USE SFTP?

ITTI Pvt Ltd,

2447

The content of Physical file is as below: hfcftp wruquief SENDPASV 0 CDUP ASCII GET 01100901.CSV ramndk/ECP505.EC0110090 (REPLACE QUIT Thw above commands will get executed when we call STRTCPFTP from CL program.... Now if I want to use SFTP what can be the solution? plz reply in detail....Thank you for ny help...

1 4391

can I copy content of Physican file in some source Member of type TXT? Thanx..

1 4637

what is the use of UNIQUEUE KEY WORD? what is the difference between PFILE AND REF?

2 6967

what is OUTFILE?what is the uses and disadvantage? where we can use this?

2 13217

what is jurnal?what is the use of theis?what is difference between commitment control and jurnaling?

2 6471

How to genarate the reports?

1 4377

what is primarykey?what is difference between primary key and forign key?

1 5407

why 02 level number can't be use as a separate level number like 01 or 77 ?

3 6462

how do you resolve -818 error in db2. where we have to see time stamp token. i said by seeing in load module and plan .is it correct or not. give clear explination for how to see time stamp token

IBM, TRD,

2 7673

how to resolve -811

IBM,

2 5800

how to resolve -805. give clear explination for that

IBM,

2 6405

Un-Answered Questions { MainFrame }

What are the types of the dfhmdf present in the cics?

1011

What do you understand by the terms: joblib and steplib?

1192

What is a db2 table?

1031

Is ibm db2 open source?

1088

When we have a file with Duplicate records and I want to read the unique record from the file. For example a file containing Emp Name as 'Ram' and there are 3 entries of it. So how to read a unique record from File?

972

Define data page.

1079

While unloading huge amount of data from table. Suddenly job failed some error. Imagine 1M data unloading, In that 90% data unloaded only 10% left, So if want to unload the rest 10% what needs to be done? Whether do i need to start from top or anything ?

2344

Define psb?

1115

what is search and searchall?what is the diffrence between them?give an best example?

6855

seqence numbers in cobol

3131

suppose program A is calling program B, at a time A will send 100 records but it has to send 500 records. how it will possible?

2099

When do you get -811 sqlcode and how to resolve it?

1022

Which is the difference between delimited by size and delimited by space?

1106

Explain the benefits you can get from mainframe connect?

981

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

1089

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