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

In an EVALUTE statement is the order of the WHEN clauses significant?

4 12382

Give some advantages of REDEFINES clause?

Syntel,

2 20763

How do you do in-line PERFORM?

Accenture,

4 18134

Explain call by context by comparing it to other calls.

1 9078

What does EXIT do ?

Deloitte,

3 13610

what is Pic 9v99 Indicates?

2 13474

What is an explicit scope terminator?

3 20143

COMP?

2 6309

What should be the sorting order for SEARCH ALL?

5 10488

How is sign stored in Packed Decimal fields and Zoned Decimal fields?

ABC, HCL, TCS,

6 37957

How do you define a table/array in COBOL?

Hexaware,

5 31273

When is a scope terminator mandatory?

3 9113

How do you submit JCL via a Cobol program?

IBM,

5 20647

What is the difference between a DYNAMIC and STATIC call in COBOL?

2 13225

Differentiate COBOL and COBOL-II?

2504

Un-Answered Questions { MainFrame }

How many databases can be created inside an instance in db2 ?

989

How to pass the parameter in parm using linkage section ? (syntax)?

1082

what is the function of cpysplf command?

1600

How can a stopped job be started again?

1147

What is RRange and ARange?

2062

What are the key features of adabas database system?

906

is there any way to execute more than one proc in the same exec statement at the same time..?

2590

Explain dd statement in jcl?

1063

What is a db2 cursor?

1011

What is meant by dclgen?

1071

some special characters I key in my html source members show different on my web pages. Why? How can I solve this?

1036

when a task suspends all the handle conditions via the push command, how does the task reactivate all the handle conditions?

1124

What is job control language?

1038

What action db2 takes when a program aborts in the middle of a transaction?

1105

Explain the purpose of dd dummy statement?

1169

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