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 is the most common way of building queue-id of a TSQ? (Name the constituents of the Queue ID).

2 5954

What does the BUFFER option in RECEIVE mean ?

IBM,

1 5156

What is temporary storage?

IBM,

1 4097

Specify the CICS command used to read a VSAM record starting with prefix ?F?. Code all the relevant options.

IBM,

2 7490

What is an MDT (Modified Data Tag) - it's meaning and use?

Polaris,

2 29287

What is a logical message in CICS?

IBM, Syntel, Wipro,

1 6588

Which is the control table where you specify all the transaction that are to be started by CICS after CICS

4 7048

What is the difference between using the READ command with INTO option and SET option?

IBM,

2 5828

What are the CICS commands associated with temporary storage queue processing?

2 11414

Which is the AID that will not be identified in the ANYKEY option of the HANDLE AID command?

1 6069

How would you resolve an ASRA abend?

IBM,

2 17329

What are the differences between and EXEC CICS XCTL and an EXEC CICS START command?

1 9646

What is the general Command format of CICS ?

Amdocs,

1 6025

What other file control processing commands are used for file updating?

1 4725

Can you access QSAM (seq ) files from CICS ?

IBM,

2 8974

Un-Answered Questions { MainFrame }

How to change size of Initial number of records to *NOMAX for ALL PF files from perticular library, how can I do that

3234

How do you define a variable of comp-1 and comp-2?

1201

What are the pertinent COBOL

2570

What is cobol db2?

1002

What is database manager in db2?

1023

Difference between NOPASS & OMIT?

1853

How to Define a Procedure in RPG?

1732

What are the benefits of using the db2 database?

1229

What is RETURN CURSER LOCATION in subfile?

1573

What is FORMAT keyword and its use?

611

does anybody know about niit technologies ? how is that company ? any body working in that company ? please answer my question.I got selected in NIIT Technologies delhi.

3004

Define base cluster?

1011

Can you explain create an empty file by using sort?

954

Explain the process in which flat files are converted into vsam files?

1010

How to reverse the string in rpg

1811

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