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

How many ways are there for initiating a transaction? what are they?

IBM,

3 5850

Name some commands used for CICS file browsing.

2 6118

If no exception handling is provided in the program, what will happen ?

1 4221

What is EXEC CICS RETRIEVE ?

IBM,

1 25863

What information do you get when an EXEC CICS STARTCODE is issued?

CTS, IBM,

1 4521

Which CICS service transaction is used to gain accessibility to CICS control tables?

1 5299

How do you delete Item 3 in a five-item TSQ?

IBM,

3 14429

What are the differences between Temporary Storage Queue (TSQ) and Transient Data Queue (TDQ).?

2301

Which type of TDQ is read destructive?

IBM,

1 8036

How many exceptional condition can be given in a HANDLE CONDITION?

IBM,

5 9167

What is the meaning of the SYNCPOINT command?

IBM,

1 12597

How do you initiate another transaction?

1 4348

Can you use OCCURS in a BMS map? If you do, what are the issues related with its use?

IBM,

1 11379

For a CICS-DB2 program, how is the plan referenced?

IBM, ITC Infotech,

2 14264

If I create a TSQ from one transaction, can I read it from another transaction?

IBM,

4 11906

Un-Answered Questions { MainFrame }

What is data manager?

1052

What is the difference between copybooks and subprocedures in as400?

1360

which cl command can be used at program execution to redirect the file named in an rpg program?

1204

How ENQ and DEQ used in CICS?

1443

why do we use readc? What is sflnxtchg?

1194

How to declare the pull button in AS/400..

2333

Explain the function of entry-sequenced data set?

1035

Using %check we are checking monika in mona what is output? What is %SCAN?

1674

In COBOL, what is the different between index and subscript?

1245

What is NOTCAT ?

1335

What kind of database is db2?

1038

What is diff between EVAL & MOVE?

1582

What is the purpose of using commit?

1100

if you wish to use the rewrite command how must the vsam file be opened?

1154

what is a corelated subquerry?

1122

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