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MainFrame Interview Questions

Questions Answers Views Company eMail

What is query for your birthday date should be in hours,minute and seconds format?

1 7911

What will happen when we try to pass data from JCL to COBOL using PARM parameter without declaring the length field in Linkage Section?

IBM,

2 9444

Hi................... I have records like this aaaa cccc bbbb And i want output like this bbbb cccc aaaa How can it possible ?. Note:Please make sure records are in unsorted order. somebody plzzz help me.

1 8980

In cursor program perform para varying until 1 by 1 fetch para cursor------close para in the blank what will come for confirming in the database?

HCL,

1 6354

how do you resolve -805?

HCL,

3 10194

how do u see the output of cics program?

HCL,

4 10661

what is difference between cobol and cobol/400

HCL,

1 22928

In file1 have 80 records are like d1,d2,d3......D80. File2 have 1000records are like a1d1,a1d2,a3d3.....Etc. I want matching records in file3 ? Plse tell me the matching logic???I want answer only in cobol ?Not using any tool or jcl?

CSC,

1 5355

How system will identify whether user wants to create PS or PDS? If answer is SPACE parameter then why we need to pass ps or po as dataset organisation while creation

1 5041

have in 100 records in a file i want to read first 3 records and skip next 3 records and agan i want to read 3 records and again i want to skip 3 records...

ITC Indian Tobacco Company, PNP, TCS,

2 10117

i have n records in one file and in this file there is some fields and i want to count that how many sharma in my file so plz give the coding that how we read sharma ?

2 6766

have in 100 records in a flat file i want to move records like 1,3,5,7,9,11,.. to Output file1 and 2,4,6,8,10,12,14 .. records moved to Output file2..Pls Provide real time answer..

TCS,

5 12870

When we code these comp,comp1,comp-2,comp-3 and comp4 values. I know the differnece.I mean when we will prefer if it is new program.Explain in detail with memory examples. Thanks in advance.

CTS,

1 8442

I have a table(product),It contain fields(productname,cost). I want to retrieve the product name ,which cost is second maximum in the table?

Fidelity,

10 14391

can we use 77 level no for Redefines?if we use give an example?

Mphasis,

3 11179

Un-Answered Questions { MainFrame }

Which dd parameters are required?

1187

What is maximum displacement and how to cross this limit?

1177

Explain the processing modes available in ims db?

3625

what is sflinz and sflrna?

1516

Explain the difference between and exec cics xctl and an exec cics link command?

1117

What is the local-storage section?

1148

What is the difference between Structured COBOL Programming and Object Oriented COBOL programming?

1122

What is meant by bmp mode?

1077

Give the format of using and giving in sort statement. What are the restrictions with it?

1038

whats the diff bw the evaluate also and and?

2344

does uni-rexx give me any capabilities designed specifically for the unix environment?

977

List the type of locks and explain each of them.

934

Explain the address converter?

1009

How do you select a row using indexes in db2?

1135

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

958

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