MainFrame Interview Questions
Questions Answers Views Company eMail

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

4 10734

Give some advantages of REDEFINES clause?

Syntel,

2 18694

How do you do in-line PERFORM?

Accenture,

4 15717

Explain call by context by comparing it to other calls.

1 7963

What does EXIT do ?

Deloitte,

3 12035

what is Pic 9v99 Indicates?

2 12121

What is an explicit scope terminator?

3 18873

COMP?

2 5337

What should be the sorting order for SEARCH ALL?

5 8932

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

ABC, HCL, TCS,

6 35615

How do you define a table/array in COBOL?

Hexaware,

5 29309

When is a scope terminator mandatory?

3 7979

How do you submit JCL via a Cobol program?

IBM,

5 18529

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

2 11721

Differentiate COBOL and COBOL-II?

1954


Un-Answered Questions { MainFrame }

I have 60 steps in the JCL and want to Execute Only First from PROC by overriding in JCL ?

1342


what is pdes?

652


What is sort? And its syntax?

665


Code the related portions of cics/cobol-i programs to gain addressability to twa area assigned to a particular task. Assme that the size of twa area is 300bytes. What are the advantages if cobol-ii is used in the place of cobol?

673


What is the significance of addrspc parameter in the exec statement?

616






I need to compare 3 variables(dates) and do some processing based on the earliest date. There could be more then 1 date record in any of the 3 fields. What is the best way to code this?

1798


Explain the difference between record occurrence and record type?

1659


Name and explain the three location modes?

1010


Define cobol coding sheet?

564


Hi, i would like to start a new carrier in DB2 DBA.Which and what all step should i have to take..?

2685


What is the output of the following command given in tso/ispf terminal?

589


What is the function of a dd statement?

702


can anybody post me about file-aid and changemen tools pls and give me reference if any mainframe guys are there

1835


How to check sequence on a table in db2?

596


How do u design a physical file, when you have 2 Unique fields like for eg in A student file student ID and student examination no both are unique

546