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MainFrame Interview Questions

Questions Answers Views Company eMail

How do you read from a TSQ?

IBM,

1 8111

Are sequential files supported by CICS?

1 6549

Name and explain some common CICS abend codes?

HSBC,

2 48709

What is the attribute byte?

IBM,

2 14983

What is the process of converting the CICS commands into the equivalent host language statements called?

3 8259

What is the common systems area (CSA)?

IBM,

2433

What are the 3 working storage fields used for every field on the map?

IBM,

1 4912

Explain how to handle exceptional conditions in CICS.

IBM,

1 7028

What is the difference between the enter key, the PF keys and the PA keys?

2 9959

What are the two types of transient data queues?

IBM,

1 4849

How to build up LU 6.2 communication?"

IBM,

1 4498

Which of the following commands, when issued by 2 different programs running at the same time, will prevent simultaneous use of resource 'SINGLE'?

1 4176

What happens to resources supplied to a transaction when an XCTL command is executed?

IBM,

1 4302

What is EIB. How it can be used?

1 7069

What is an ASRA abend ?

IBM,

3 14900

Un-Answered Questions { MainFrame }

Distinguish among erase, erase permanent, erase selective and erase all?

1747

What are the different versions of gdg named?

1050

what are the additional information you should give in the dd statement while defining the next generation of a gdg?

1050

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

6935

by using xpeditor if we want to debug the subpgm, how can you code in x-ped for mai-pgm n sub-pgm ?

2336

what are the differences between and exec cics xctl and exec cics start command?

1300

write a cobol logic. i have file that has 10 records .1 record go to first output file and second record goes to 2 output and etc

1305

Specify cics transaction initiation process?

1114

Why we sometimes use same file name in file and tofile in ovrdbf and sometimes different?

1196

What is the purpose of record level identifier?

1180

what is the use of data structures?

1186

What is cobol coding sheet?

1302

What is adabas and why it is used?

996

Why is it necessary that file needs to be opened in I-O mode for REWRITE?

1393

What is notcat 2 - gs?

1520

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