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MainFrame Interview Questions

Questions Answers Views Company eMail

Is It Possible to Update or change in VIEW Mode?

CSC,

5 12473

2)Where the Plan is located in CICS-DB2?

IBM,

1 5504

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

IBM,

2 13454

Can we use two or more SYSPUNCH DD statements in a JCL for multiple unload (SYSREC00 & SYSREC01)..?

1 8783

How many types of sorts are there in cobol?

Cap Gemini,

5 14114

1.Is it possible to move the data from 99.99 to 99v99? 2.What is the CICS-vsam Compilation process? 3.In My GDG 5 generation will be there GDG3 got an abend what will happen? 4.In my GDG first generation is +1 And I want to add the new generation what will happen previous generation? 5.How can you give the PIC clause below conditions A). s9 (reddy), B). s9 (5) occurs 5 times? 6.How override the proc from a particular step? and what is symbolic and override Procs?

IBM,

5812

If a sub program is called from mainprogram.I have opened cursor in main program and Fetch the result in subprogram ,Is it possible ?If yes please tell me the reason.

1 6983

in options (main) , what is meaning of main . if u not used main what will happen? After compiling, os will not understand where to load and execute from

AppLabs,

2187

how many types of sorts are there in jcl?

IBM,

2 6897

the command to open a dataset directly from the JCL instead of opening it separately using 3.4 option.

IBM,

7 26045

SQLCODE = -199, ERROR: ILLEGAL USE OF KEYWORD CHAR, TOKEN KEY was expected

11673

What is the component?what are the different components there using cobol and cics

IBM, SPIC,

2 8227

we hav job which is running as batch. it takes atleast 06hours to complete tht job. bu i wana do tht job with in 3hours.........? so plz post ur answers

Cap Gemini, IBM,

8 14087

Hi i have one question In my srvpgm one module ADDM is there now i want to add new module i.e SUBM , please answer me IN STEPS how to write bndlanguage and how it was attach to SRVPGM

IBM, Satyam,

2 8459

i have 10,000 records in one input file.i want to sort 1 to 5000 records in one outputfile and remaining records sort in another output file write the syntax for this?

DELL,

4 21139

Un-Answered Questions { MainFrame }

what is the panel name of ispf primary option menu?

1147

how can you specify no duplicate key?

1150

Explain how can the attributes of one sms dataset be copied to another dataset?

1213

Many jcl statements contain specific values designed to direct and control the execution of the statement. What are these fields called?

1227

What are the different data types in cobol?

1440

Whenever a cics program goes through a compilation process, there is always some extra code that is added to the program. Where exactly does this new piece of code go to and what is it termed as ?

1032

Explain The Keywords Edtcde & Edtwrd?

1401

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

1188

What is the interactive job? What is the batch job?

1043

How do you differentiate between cobol and cobol-ii?

1210

How to remove 2 duplicate records and copy only one using job control language?

1219

1. What is bound-by-call and bound-by-reference? 2. Where and why is *Nomain used? 3. What are the difficulties faced by programmers when using service programs? 4. Explain the different ways of parsing and compiling XML in iSeries.

6513

how to access data in control blocks such as jobname?

954

Can you define notcat 2?

1036

Hi, i would like to start a new carrier in DB2 DBA.Which and what all step should i have to take..?

3154

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