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 we rectify soc7 and soc4 errors in project?

Anaxis, TCS,

1 6103

how to identify the pseudo conversation by seeing the program

DELL,

2 7973

how can we find total no of records in a file ....is there any utility......?

IBM,

3 8121

how will u pass dadta to cobol+db2 program...?

IBM,

4 10079

can anyone explain me about sort in jcl with inrec and outrec ?

HCL,

2 15507

in production region 100 steps are running,but i need to run only step5 without changing code how can i do it?

HCL,

4 12051

which is better either static call or dynamic call? and why?

HCL,

5 12466

can we redefine 77 level item is it possible

HCL,

4 11313

what are difference organizations in cobol and access mode in cobol? can you expalin what organization means while declaring for ksds,esds,rrds?

HCL,

1 9402

what is the advantage of using redefines instead of delaring the variables ?

HCL,

5 10838

cobol-db2 runjcl please?

DELL,

2 6891

can we update the table by using cursors can anyone post the query?

DELL, HCL,

5 11262

is there any lock for vsam file so that no one can update the vsam file ?

HCL,

2 9929

what is the use of aix in vsam why do we go for aix and wht is build index in vsam?

HCL, IBM,

5 12782

WORKING-STORAGE SECTION. 01 A PIC X(3) VALUE 'ABC' 01 B PIC 9(3). PROCEDURE DIVISION. MOVE A TO B. STOP RUN. OUTPUT IS: AB3 WHY AND HOW THIS IS HAPPENING.

Atos Origin,

4 8650

Un-Answered Questions { MainFrame }

What is the use of lds (linear data set)?

1080

What are the processing modes available in ims db?

1123

why icetool be used in programmer view?

2627

How to retrieve a physical file after deleting that?

1171

is it compulsory commitment control in journal?

2523

differentiate between sequential files and esds files in vsam?

1238

name the command that is used to dump the main storage areas related to a task?

1150

What are the rules for db2 programming?

1157

If JOBA is in MSGW due to data decimal error and DUMP is generated and I found that Decimal field formatted with some special char which is coming from Input file amd file has millions of records. How I can find out on which record the error is occur. Please share your experience.....

2225

What is the use of reorg in db2?

1143

When are scope terminators compulsory?

1093

how do u start your process after conducting impact analysis ?

2173

When you are working with the project.. once your coding is over what will u do? where u r maintaining your CR(change request) what is the format what are the documents u need to prepare while testing?

2048

what is the use of the file status clause in the select statement in vsam?

1165

Define the term transaction routing?

1242

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