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?s the CICS command used to access current date and time?

1 9124

When you do a START, what will the value of EIBCALEN?

IBM, Satyam, Xansa,

2 13076

What is the COMMAREA(communications area)?

IBM,

1 6791

How can you accomplish breakpoint in intertest?

IBM,

2 6703

What are the CICS commands associated with transient data queue processing?

1 6267

What is meant by program reentrance?

Amdocs,

1 7246

TSQs can be written in the Main storage or Auxiliary storage (True or False).

IBM,

1 5140

What is the primary function of the Sign-on Table?

1 5356

What is the CICS command that is used to copy a screen image of a terminal into another terminal?

IBM,

1 5911

How to establish dynamic cursor position on a map? How to get the cursor position when we receive a map?

IBM,

2 9770

What is an ASRA?

IBM,

2 7616

What are different ways of initiating transaction in CICS ?

Cap Gemini, IBM,

3 28536

What is the command that is used to add a new record to the file?

1 5420

What is a cursor in CICS sql processing?

IBM,

1 5857

Can you issue SQL COMMIT from a CICS program?

IBM,

2 12875

Un-Answered Questions { MainFrame }

What is the cobol picture clause of the db2 data types date, time, timestamp?

1068

What is nvl in db2?

1093

can you have multiple key lists for a single file ?

1700

a set statement is used to define commonly used symbolic across job steps or procedures. It initializes the previous values in the symbolic names. It has to be defined before the first use of the symbolic names in the jcl. State whether true or false?

1087

What statement marks the beginning of a job step; assigns a name to the step; identifies the program or catalogued or in-stream procedure to be executed in the step?

1102

What is the syntax of JCL statement?

1235

What are fset, frset?

1012

How is Telon(CA-Telon) used to build map?

4613

What is a Foreign Key?

1096

How will you return the number of records in table?

937

What is package in cobol db2?

1119

What is mainframe application testing?

1055

what is db2 restart?

2162

What is db2 stogroup?

1160

Can there be more than one cursor open for any program?

1169

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