MainFrame Interview Questions, Answers for Freshers and Experienced asked in various Company Job Interviews

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MainFrame Interview Questions

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ther r 2 tables OTTABLE & SALTABLE, add the otamt from OTTABLE to empsal of SALTABLE if eid is matched else add the unmatched from OTTABLE to SALTABLE

2125

by using cursors , we can access particular records from the table based on some condition, i want to delete those selected records, how can we write a query for this in the program?

Mphasis,

4 9375

WHAT IS THE DISPLAY CMD FOR DATAQ, HOW IT CAN BE USED?

2 26861

how to execute the last 5 steps in jcl

Syntel,

2 7413

What is XDC ?

Cap Gemini, IBM,

3 19134

Describe the COBOL coding sheet

Cap Gemini, Royal Infotech,

2 14797

How can you display the current date & current time ?

Cap Gemini,

1 5182

How can you display the current date & current time ?

Cap Gemini,

7 13170

S9(5)V9(2) occupies how many bytes memory ?

Cap Gemini,

6 49343

How can you display the SPOOL information ?

2 6018

what is invreq condition?

IBM,

3 24563

explain abt types of maps? and explain

1 4548

i want apply mainframe devolper with 3+ but i dont have that much of knowledge what isthe solution to get that much of knoweldge?

1 4676

when SE37 SB37 and sd37 occurs how to increase the volume , primary quantity and secondary quantity?

Hewitt,

1 4058

Which one allows duplicate values Union or Union All ?

3 7670

Un-Answered Questions { MainFrame }

what are the key words you must use when using a subfile?

1243

What is the use of dclgen in db2?

1139

what is the version of os/400 that we have?

1712

How can an in-stream dataset be terminated?

1402

how can I automatically refresh a web page?

1101

In a CICS program, how will you read a VSAM file?

1189

what happens in conversion stage in job processing?

1279

Explain in detail about buffer manager and its functionalities?

1149

what is a spool file?

1193

Explain the data storage?

1065

How to resolve the error "WER488A JOIN CAPACITY EXCEEDED" I am using SYNCSORT with JOINKEYS to compare 2 files. I am Getting error - > WER488A JOIN CAPACITY EXCEEDED There are 2 files to be compared with about 2 million records each. LRECL is 3665. Can somebody give a pointer as to how to resolve this problem? I am using SYNCSORT with JOINKEYS to compare 2 files. I am Getting error - > WER488A JOIN CAPACITY EXCEEDED There are 2 files to be compared with about 2 million records each. LRECL is 3665. Can somebody give a pointer as to how to resolve this problem?

8668

What is need of start 0? In steed of can we use anyother numerics? If we use what will happen?

1108

. How to know why the OPM job is in MSGWAIT state?..WHAT COULD BE THE REASON FOR it?

8033

What happens if both JOBLIB & STEPLIB is specified ?

1209

what is cab?

1228

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