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

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

1 8006

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 9555

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 9496

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 6429

how do you resolve -805?

HCL,

3 10332

how do u see the output of cics program?

HCL,

4 10825

what is difference between cobol and cobol/400

HCL,

1 23092

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 5475

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 5122

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 10249

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 6874

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 13073

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 8550

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 14735

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

Mphasis,

3 11360

Un-Answered Questions { MainFrame }

What is a cics task?

1118

HOW to change the coloumns in XREF?

2071

Name a few CICS programs which are generally used ?

1119

Differentiate between PCT and FCT.

1239

how can I automatically refresh a web page?

1101

What are the parameters that are used in creating a gdg?

1283

What is rmode(24)

1199

Explain psbgen process?

1274

What are hierarchy levels in jcl?

1575

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

2016

What is the eib?

1082

How many types of page locks can be held in db2?

1096

how do you use commitment control in rpg?

1329

What is host variable?

1118

how do you execute a background cics txn ?

1359

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