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MainFrame Interview Questions

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In my table having 3000 Records. How can I delete the 500th row? (we don't know what is data inside the table)

3 10121

Please send me the real time scenarios in Mainframe Project... i.e., it may be in banking or insurance sector or any other no problem..... please send your mails to krishnaprasadbvs@gmail.com

CSC,

11691

I want to know what exactly the STOPPER field does with example. Please help.

1 4367

What is the drawback of using HANDLE CONDITION?

IBM,

1 5931

My JCL has 4 steps that execute PROC’s P1, P2, P3 and P4 as shown below //P1 EXEC PROC=P1 //P2 EXEC PROC=P2 //P3 EXEC PROC=P3 //P4 EXEC PROC=P4 There are four steps S1, S2, S3 and S4 in each PROC’s (i.e. P1, P2, P3 and P4) I want to execute only step S2 of PROC P2 and no other steps or PROC’s. How do you achieve this?

IMS,

4 9693

can any one help in hawkeye and turnover or any change management system plzzzzz or send the documents to my mail id :gvsp.as4@gmail.com

2358

what is importance of 'MAPFLD' IN OPNQRYF FILE ?

2 10931

how to purge 50 initiators continuously?? console commands??

IBM, ups,

4 13970

I have 255 procedures in a job, each procedure contain 2 steps.can we execute this job?

2 6462

this is rpg3 code W0RTN IFEQ @CN,002 what is the means @CN,002

1 5200

ihave ten flatfile in that iwant to concatinate all the files except file 5,6 into output file by uing jcl? how to do this? give me detail yntax for tis?

IBM,

4 8860

how we change the vsam file name in cics rigion? anybody elobrate this?

IBM,

3 11350

what is need of START 0?. In steed of '0' can we use any other numerics?. if we use what will happen?.

CSC, TCS,

4 11403

sample code for read a 2nd record from last in flatfile how can do?

iNautix,

4 14047

A cobol program to read a file , match it with other if. If match occurs then write it to an output file. If no match then no need to write it.Error log created by program to track any error.

1 7316

Un-Answered Questions { MainFrame }

What kind of database is db2?

982

What is the binary search?

905

What is a buffer in memory?

1015

What is %CHECK?

1220

How many bytes will a s9(8) comp field occupy ?

1087

What is RRange and ARange?

2060

How many register we are using in mvs?

1011

Tell about how do you eliminate the duplicates?

950

What is PL/I?

1362

What is the mainframe testing? Categorize the mainframe manual testing?

915

What is precompiler in db2?

968

I HAVE 500 ROW TO UPDATE I WOULD LIKE TO USE ROLLBACK ALONG WITH COMMIT.WHAT IS THE SYNTAX TO CODE COMMIT AND ROLLBACK FOR EVERY 100 ROWS.AND HOW THE CURSOR ROLLBACK TO THE LAST COMMITTING POINT.

3153

Explain how would you resolve an asra abend?

937

define subsystem?

1568

Explain the advantage of creating the acbs well ahead of time?

3521

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