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

Why is it important not to execute a STOP RUN in CICS ?

IBM,

4 12423

What is the CICS command that is used to receive the un- formatted data from the terminal?

2 7310

What is the command used to request notification when the specified time has expired?

1 5056

How is dynamic memory allocated within a CICS application program?

IBM,

1 11186

Which of the following statements correctly describe the syntax of CICS command language?

1 5773

How can you start a CICS transaction other than by keying the Transaction ID at the terminal?

IBM,

5 25248

What is effect on RECEIVE MAP when PF key is pressed? PA key is pressed?

1 7096

What is the difference between a Symbolic map and Physical map ?

IBM,

4 46762

What is multitasking and multithreading?

IBM,

4 24843

How do you establish a starting position in a browse operation?

IBM,

2 7033

Sync points cannot be requested by the application programs (True or False).

IBM,

1 5192

What is the difference between a package and a plan. How does one bind 2 versions of a CICS

1 5680

What is the primary function of the Processing Program Table (PPT)?

IBM,

5 14725

What do you do if you do not want characters entered by the user to be folded to uppercase ?

IBM,

3 7875

What does it mean when EIBCALEN is equal to zeros?

ADP, IBM, L&T, Satyam, TATA,

6 77494

Un-Answered Questions { MainFrame }

explain icm instruction?

1092

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

1151

how can you define a dataarea(DTAARA) IN RPG? Which spec you define it C-spec/D-spec?

1866

i need a small 3d program using inline and outline.

2218

Highlight the difference between a symbolic map and physical map?

1135

Differentiate between hdam and the hidam databases?

1050

I want to set position for a particular text in a certain position in several of my cics maps.Please provide me with a solution. Ex: If "F1-Help" has to be set to pos(4,27) always in all the maps within a PDS.

2322

Explain the difference between tsq and tdq

997

In job processing, what happens in conversion stage?

1201

What is db2? Explain.

1052

Explain about the file objects in vsam?

1049

Define data page.

1075

How to define data area in RPG program? In which scenario multi occurrence DS is use in AS400?

2020

What is cloudant database?

1104

What is schema in db2?

1026

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