MainFrame Interview Questions, Answers for Freshers and Experienced asked in various Company Job Interviews

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MainFrame Interview Questions

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In ProgramB there is a SBMJOB, which is a call to program C .There is also a CALL to program D from B. How would you check the program C has been executed in D?

4 11347

How do you find whether a record is locked or not?

2 7783

What is the difference between RPG/400 and RPG4

HCL,

1 13325

How do you find whether a job is a batch job or interactive?

4 10244

What you have to do in the display file when you are using message subfile?

1 5985

How to set on/off a group of indicators in a single statement?

3 11317

How can you determine the number of characters in a variable?

3 9875

Let?s consider a variable X of length 20. Move value ?ABC? to it.How to determine how many characters does X have?

1 6176

Suppose you have 3 members in a database file. How to read records from all the members without using CL (OVRDBF) i.e. Entire process should be handled exclusively in a RPG program?

7 12546

How do you do indexing in a physical file?

2 9850

Can an indexed file be accessed in arrival sequence in RPG?

3 8623

When will DUMP & DEBUG be ignored?

IBM,

3 10254

what is the necessary command needed before OPNQRYF and why?

5 27259

Can you copy the records created by the OPNQRYF to other files and how?

2 8906

What are different ways to pass data between programs and which one is the efficient way?

5 11983

Un-Answered Questions { MainFrame }

What are INPUT PROCEDURE and OUTPUT PROCEDURE?

1311

How can return codes be tested before execution of a job step?

1500

How do we specify index to include or not during bind process.

2138

State the various causes of s0c1, s0c5 and s0c7.

1106

If DB2 query returns in null value, how do you work with it in PL/1?

2374

Is it rquired any server for Ibm framework? Give me list of Ibm framework & recent version IBm framework?

2255

Can you define temporary storage?

1147

how to do automated restart when a job abends?

1399

What are the types of data structure in as400?

1050

How many sections are there in data division in COBOL?

1153

what are the different types of variables available in cl?

1846

What are the uses of ppt in cics?

1009

to use the rewrite command, how should the vsam file be opened?

1328

What is the need for a secondary index in ims?

1093

I have mainpgm(abc) this is the only cobol pgm(non-db2).And this pgm calling subpgm name "acd" this also only cobol(non- Db)and this pgm calling some other subpgm this pgm has cobol-db2 pgm. 1) IF you calling static mode how to run and how to compile? 2) IF you calling dynamic mode how to run and how to compile? plz suggestion me.

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