MainFrame Interview Questions, Answers for Freshers and Experienced asked in various Company Job Interviews

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MainFrame Interview Questions

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What tools are available in PL/1?

1540

What is the use of DEFINED attribute in DCL statement?

1 4948

What is the difference between DEFINED attribute and LIKE atrribute.

1 5750

What is the difference between bulitin fuction VERIFY and INDEX?

2 5374

What are the CONDITIONS in PL/1?

1 5931

How we can disable the enabled CONDITIONS.

2 5242

What is IBM CLIST (Command List)?

1 3829

What is Time Sharing Option (TSO)?

1 4446

What is Multiple Virtual Storage (MVS)?

1 3515

What is OS/390?

1 2899

How to Execute CLIST?

1 3316

what is the difference between implicit and explicit scope terminator with example?

1 8719

How to implement function keys in cics ...Interview ask me there is requirement to include two function key in the program F1 and F2 Keys...when F1 key is press record should be inserted into database after reading the input file and when F2 is press ,record should be updated in databased...explain about the entire process including testing also..?please expain in step by step ?

HeadStrong, Polaris,

1 4883

There is map and length of field need to modified, let take cust id=2 is previous of 2 byte and now it has to be 5 byte ? how to modified the cics code ?what are change need to done ? where where u will do change ?

3 5224

What is the advantages of using IDMS compared to other database systems?

1410

Un-Answered Questions { MainFrame }

If I want to execute Sftp commands(LS & GET) stored in Physical file from CL program automatically...Can u Plz tell me how can I do this?...How the script will look?? THANX FOR NY HELP...

2789

What information does a psb contain?

1124

what is a keyed physical file?

1852

how can we apply for HSBC exam(Mainframe) in India??? i went to their site and was told to submit my CV ,. etc..( totally confusing...)

2415

execution of a subordinate module is caused by the use of the cobol verbs ------------in the superior module

1096

How to find the maximum value in a column in the db2 database?

1094

How to create a link between multiple maps in a mapset? How to make use of Transid in this case?

1888

What is check constraint. Explain with example.

1120

What is dpf in db2?

1122

What is difference between bind by copy and bind by reference?

2489

What are the ways fot initiating a transaction?

974

Program to read marks of 10 students for 4 subjects and compute and display total marks and status of each student in rpg

1162

What are union and union all?

996

What do you mean by an alias?

1101

What is the function of rollback in idms?

923

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