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

IBM MainFrame (5234)
IBM AS400 (1355)
IBM PL/1 (31)

MainFrame Interview Questions

Questions Answers Views Company eMail

In SYMBOLIC Cursor Positioning after moving -1 to the length field also the cursor is not positioned in that particular field. Give reasons?

IBM,

2 6173

What is the command used for receiving a map from a terminal?

1 4410

What are the commands used to gain exclusive control over a resource (for Ex a Temporary storage queue.)?

3 7838

Why must all CICS programs have a Linkage Section ?

4 16871

What are the attribute values of Skipper and Stopper fields?

1 18732

What are the two ways of breaking a CPU bound process to allow other tasks to gain access to CPU.

Patni,

3 8726

What is a two Phase commit in CICS?

IBM,

2 23743

How are VSAM files Read in CICS pgms?

IBM,

4 14487

Which transient data queue supports ATI?

2 8252

What is a mapset?

2 6642

What is the difference between physical map and symbolic map?

IBM,

3 11448

How do you rollback data written to an ESDS file?

IBM, Infosys,

1 10455

What is meant by a CICS task?

4 9659

Explain the means of supporting pseudo conversation programming. (E.g. Storing and restoring of states)

2 6328

What is the significance of RDO?

IBM,

1 9595

Un-Answered Questions { MainFrame }

Why is it required to have a keyed directed retrieval?

1024

What does the 'cedf:cics' transactions do?

1065

How to check sequence on a table in db2?

1060

Explain the difference between a package and a plan.

1059

Can you explain cics transaction gateway?

1077

What is the advantages of using IDMS compared to other database systems?

1391

What are the types of processes to create a map in cics?

1047

what is the purpose of ovrdta and ovrata keywords ?

1513

I need exexution process for JCL programs

2276

How can a stopped job be started again?

1191

What is the main function of key-sequenced data set?

1024

What is open data path?

1000

What does the following code do? Ap wkur,=p5 where wkur is a label?

1089

how is the future of tandem mainframe?

3379

Explain about logical data model of idms?

878

For More Un-Answered { MainFrame } Questions Click Here