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What is the difference between getting the system time with EIBTIME and ASKTIME command?

2 12655

What is the use of a TDQ, TSQ?

IBM,

1 6751

What are extra partition & intra partition TDQs?

IBM,

2 13271

By which CICS defined field can you determine the position of the cursor on the map ?

1 4534

Name three ways the Modified Data Tag can be set on?

IBM,

6 14617

What is the access method used by DB2?

1 5715

How do you handle errors in CICS pgms ?

IBM,

1 6351

Do you receive the attribute byte in the symbolic map?

IBM,

2 9023

Explain the term Transaction routing?

IBM,

1 4296

What is a deadlock?

1 5026

What is the command used to send a map to a terminal?

1 5356

What are the 3 common ways to create maps?

IBM,

1 7639

What is the CICS LOAD command?

IBM,

3 18883

What is a resident program?

IBM,

2 10006

Name some of the common tables in CICS and their usage.

IBM,

1 7689

Un-Answered Questions { MainFrame }

What is the use of reorg in db2?

1089

How to get the last record in vsam file in cluster? And how can u get the ksds file records into cobol program?

1037

Explain how do you dynamically set the cursor position to a specific field?

1074

what is the facility that allows mainframes to be partitioned into lapars? A.z/os b.pr/sm c.vitual storaged.coupling facility

1206

how to send a sms to a mobile through mainframe mvs?

1186

is there an aix version of oorexx?

997

can I redistribute oorexx freely with commercial software?

1048

explain sorting techniques in cobol program?

1208

How can we debug cobol pgm containig idms using xpeditor?

1524

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

1124

IF I mention stop run in CICS what happens?

2382

under given circumstances, my cgi should link to another site. How to implement this?

1021

what are all the contents of subfile?

1696

How do you reference the fixed block file formats from cobol programs

1235

Describe major components of db2?

1097

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