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 an AICA abend?

IBM, Xansa,

3 33508

What is CEBR?

IBM,

3 15500

Can you have CICS code in a copybook? If yes, what happens during compilation?

IBM,

3 14536

How is the storage determined in the symbolic map, if you have multiple maps?

IBM, Wipro,

2 9099

Which is the program which determines whether a transaction should be restarted ?

1 6081

How do you access the records randomly in TSQ ?

IBM,

2 13574

In an on-line environment, how can you prevent more than one user from accessing the same Transient Data Queue at the same time?

IBM,

2 9529

Mention the option used in the CICS READ command to gain accessibility directly to the file I/O area.

2 8612

What is the content of the PPT entry?

CTS, IBM,

3 13558

What will happen if the TDQ that you want to delete is not in the DCT?

2 10459

What is the ABEND command and when would you use it?

IBM,

2 9378

What are different system tables used in CICS?

IBM,

1 13597

What is the difference between link xctl?

IBM, MBNA,

8 45469

What is the difference between a package and a plan?

Infosys, L&T, Mphasis,

6 51656

How does one bind 2 versions of a CICS transaction with the same module name in two different CICS regions that share the same DB2 subsystem?

2 7778

Un-Answered Questions { MainFrame }

What information does a dbd contain?

1093

can you change the attribute in mapset? if so how?

2225

Can you define spufi?

977

is it compulsory commitment control in journal?

2523

How to get the last record in vsam file in cluster?

1073

What is the utilization of copybook in cobol?

1289

What is the physical storage length of date data type?

1318

What is phantom read in db2?

1236

how to define to define a hidden filed in dspf ?

1418

Explain about rct in db2?

1170

What is an mdt (modified data tag)?

1105

Can you define ppt and what are its uses?

1128

Explain about LMQUERY�give a dialog information about a data set

1523

How to Create a Prompted Query?

1819

when you compile a cics program, the (pre) compiler puts an extra chunk of code. Where does it get included and that is it called? What is its length?

1170

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