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

can we concate fileds in physical file? If yes how can we do?

5 12077

what is overlay? how can we pass parameters in cl or rpg programing? how can we get data area value in cl or rpg programming?

IBM, Patni,

2 14667

How do pass the values to the parameters in cobol

2 6141

SUPPOSE I HAVE 60 CHARACTERS STING. IN THAT I WANT FIND OUT HOW MANY TIMES 'A'(ASSUME)WILL REPEATED AND I HAVE TO PASS 'E' IN PLACE OF 'A'ALONG THAT STRING.

Wipro,

2 6923

) How do you access the migrate the data from production region to development region

IBM,

1 4606

Where the Plan is located in CICS-DB2

IBM,

2 6353

How do you get the data to code the BMS macro?

IBM,

1971

what are the working storage fields in BMS macro?

IBM,

2 3649

what is the difference between PA & PF keys?

IBM,

1 5232

Whats the difference between search & search ALL?

IBM,

3 6531

If I want to increase the Limit in GDG. What should I do?

IBM,

1 6334

how do u list the abended jobs?

IBM,

1 4383

)If there are 10 steps in GDG, if I want to refer the step2 after step5 . what should I do?

IBM,

2011

What is ASKTIME, SUSPEND

IBM,

1 4979

) what is the difference between AID and HANDLE AID?

IBM,

2156

Un-Answered Questions { MainFrame }

Explain the function of the terminal control table?

1012

what is the compile process of cobol program expalin with code

2586

how many specifications are there in rpg/400? What are they?

2010

What is a db2 cursor?

1055

How we will get issues on AS/400 technology ? I mean which issue/Defect Tracking tool is using in all companies when any issue comes? Can anybody explain about the work flow of AS/400 project ? plzzz

1699

What is the role of the data page in the db2 database?

1028

how may a cgi control duplicate inputs?

1070

How to find out the closest prime number of an input number? I believe it has something to do with SEARCH and COBOL Linear Array.

4171

With the use of an alternate index, how is a VSAM file accessed?

1096

what is xfoot opcode ?

1828

What is a db2 tablespace?

1065

What is the difference between drop table and delete table?

1212

which of the cl command can be used to determine which logical files are dependent on a specific file?

1093

Explain the different ways of initiating transaction in cics?

948

What is the maximum size of a char data type in db2?

1010

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