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 reorg in DB2

Virtusa,

3 28690

Normalization in DB2 – first normal form, second normal form

Virtusa,

4 22229

How to design maps

Virtusa,

1 3880

what is Static and dynamic linking

Virtusa,

1 6111

What are common abends

SPIC, Virtusa,

1 5613

When DB2 connection fails, will online program work or give errors.

Virtusa,

1 6314

Bind concepts in DB2 cobol

IBM, TCS, TRD, Virtusa,

10 30752

What is data only and map only in cics

TCS, Virtusa,

4 27609

How are screens created in cics

Virtusa,

2 6928

Use of DFHCOMMAREA in cics

Virtusa,

2 17715

How do you know if a record exists without doing a READ and CHAIN?

IBM,

6 20719

What will be your approach in going either for OPNQRYF or Logical files. Which one to go for?

2 8539

How do you call procedures in ILE?

3 9327

What is the syntax of passing parameters to a procedure by value?

1 6952

How do you code file / field renames in ILE RPG?

Accenture, IBM,

4 15649

Un-Answered Questions { MainFrame }

what difference exists between control area and control interval?

1054

Define an asra abend?

1088

define the purpose of the *cat function?

1694

What os does db2 run on?

999

What is a ca split?

1097

What is the difference between the positional and keyword parameters? Give examples.

1280

What is the physical storage length of the data types: date, time, timestamp in the db2 database?

1176

explain how many ways you can load data in a vsam cluster?

1060

what is the command to know key fields of file?

1196

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

980

Explain the difference between local and central version operating modes?

853

How to write record if no field or the field are different in physical file in rpgle ?

982

Can you define cics task?

1127

How will you return the number of records in table?

955

What are the different types of model available in coolplex

1470

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