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 6087

What does the BUFFER option in RECEIVE mean ?

IBM,

1 5246

What is temporary storage?

IBM,

1 4167

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

IBM,

2 7591

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

Polaris,

2 29443

What is a logical message in CICS?

IBM, Syntel, Wipro,

1 6678

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

4 7197

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

IBM,

2 5953

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

2 11525

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

1 6173

How would you resolve an ASRA abend?

IBM,

2 17444

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

1 9772

What is the general Command format of CICS ?

Amdocs,

1 6132

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

1 4801

Can you access QSAM (seq ) files from CICS ?

IBM,

2 9080

Un-Answered Questions { MainFrame }

Explain how will you differentiate between an internal and an external sort, the pros and cons, internal sort syntax etc

1313

Can you explain control variable in online screens?

1036

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

1068

have you already used rexx - even for limited purposes? Do you need to maintain a high level of productivity during your transition to unix?

1001

can any one exaplin about Decision Tables in test region with good example

2856

Explain how you can characterize tables in cobol?

1115

What are some jcl statements that are not allowed in procedures?

1292

What are all the divisions of a COBOL program?

1278

What is the difference between using bind () and rebind () methods of naming class?

1473

what happens in conversion stage in job processing?

1279

What is the pcp in the cics?

984

What is rmode(24)

1199

What is static and dynamic call in cobol?

1120

What is temporal table in db2?

1105

what is a non-join logical file?

1929

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