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MainFrame Interview Questions

Questions Answers Views Company eMail

What is the use of DSECT parameter in BMS?

IBM, Xansa,

2 19849

Which CICS system program is responsible for handling automatic task initialization?

IBM,

2 8330

Native Mode Data Stream (NMDS) is a mixture of Buffer Control Characters(BCC) and text data (True or False)

2 8118

What is the difference between CICS Program Control Table (PCT) and CICS Processing Program Table (PPT) ?

IBM,

4 21368

What is the command which will delete a program LOADed into the main storage using LOAD command?

2 7925

How do you place the cursor on a particular position on the screen?

IBM,

1 6554

How will you place cursor on a field called ?EMPNO?.

2 6403

Why doesn?t CICS use the Cobol Open and Close statements ?

2 9113

Reading a record from a TSQ will logically delete the record from the Queue (True or False).

1 7207

What are the three ways available for a program to position the cursor on the screen?

IBM,

2 5729

What is the option that is used to erase all unprotected fields during a SEND MAP operation?

Kanbay,

5 15864

A CICS program ABENDS with an ASRA ABEND code. What is its meaning?

IBM,

3 26664

What CICS command do you need to obtain the user logon-id?

IBM,

1 5534

what are the differences between DFHCOMMAREA and TSQ ?

IBM,

3 15798

When an XCTL is done, does the tranid change ? Is a new task created ? Does it cause an implicit

3 11762

Un-Answered Questions { MainFrame }

What is the function of linear dataset in vsam?

1072

Explain the purpose of dd * statement in jcl?

1069

Expalin about Ibm frameworkinh working & is it platform independant & open source?

2075

hi guys i am new for sqlrpgle, please suggest me good websites and theory and coding. plz plz its very urgent.

2563

Explain control variable in online screens?

1003

how do you pass parameters in cl?

1823

How converted the natural coding for adabas

3279

What is the difference between local and central version operating modes?

1312

Define task work area?

1320

What is runstats and reorg in db2?

1304

What is rebind in db2?

1061

what is the maximum number of records you can specify in a display file?

1873

what u mean by csrloc and rtncsrloc in rpgIV in as/400.Give an eg? to do...give some coding...what is row no and column no ???..if possible...give a no of lines coding....please

4447

What kind of error is trapped by on size error option?

1239

What is bmp mode?

3539

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