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 to delete generations of gdg without deleting gdg base?

3 17553

how 2 resolve the -311 sqlcode

1 18958

What is the use of base and index registers in the IBM 360/370 processor?

3767

in a indexed file what is procedure for read the records from 12 to 18. please give the code example

L&T,

2 7808

what are the utilities for load and unload the DB2 tables

L&T,

1 9994

IDENTIFICATION DIVISION. PROGRAM-ID. MOVEPGM. DATA DIVISION. WORKING-STORAGE SECTION. 01 WS-I PIC 9(2). PROCEDURE DIVISION. A1000-MAIN-PARA. PERFORM PARA-X WITH TEST BEFORE UNTIL WS-I= 5 STOP RUN. PARA-X. DISPLAY "BEST2". I m getting error s722,while executing the program, seems getting in loop, can anybody tell me why

3 5859

How to increase the logical record length of existing PS file?

7 34653

Can anybody give me example of subscript and index

5 9670

what will happen if pass values more than 100 using PARM parameter?

1 9374

write the logic for PAGEUP and PAGEDOWN by using psuedo conversatation technique?

Cap Gemini,

2 14999

While using SORT FILES =NONE,XSUM I am getting error "ICE172A E XSUM IS NOT SUPPORTED - USE ICETOOL SELECT IF APPROPRIATE"..I want to write duplicate records a a serparte file..how i can do tht?

Steria,

3 16283

how can i pull up a query which was previously stored in qmf

3 11394

seqence numbers in cobol

TCS,

3120

all i need to know about cmpseqdat parameter in cmppfm, how it works and can we retrieve line sequence and date from the output?

2874

How to define a array dynamically.....

Fidelity,

5 10197

Un-Answered Questions { MainFrame }

How to Define a Procedure in RPG?

1730

Write a program to enter and display the names of students in a class using the occurs clause.

1208

what is a jcl?

1139

What is amode(31)

1172

What action db2 takes when a program aborts in the middle of a transaction?

1154

What is inspect in cobol ?

1301

Pose, there are 100 records in the file.i need to retrieve all the records matching/equal to the particular name field. How can we do the above using search criteria other than using the if cond?

1050

I just know the Panvalet dataset name, i would like to search all the members of that dataset for particular keyword through Rexx. how to achive? please suggest. Is it possible to open panvalet member in browse mode using Rexx? Your help would be appreciated very much. Thanks in advance.

5557

mention the option (along with argument type) used in a cics command to retrieve the response code after execution of the command?

1188

What are the various error conditions seen in rexx?

921

What is the kcp in the cics?

1167

Explain db2.

1034

why is as/400 called object oriented machine?

1693

Define db2 and its databases?

1055

What is cursor stability in db2?

1356

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