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MainFrame Interview Questions

Questions Answers Views Company eMail

what are the key words you must use when using a subfile?

IBM,

1254

how do you use commitment control in rpg?

IBM,

1333

do you use message subfiles? What are the necessary keywords required coding a message subfile?

IBM,

1187

what are the array operations?

IBM,

1 2263

how does the rpg element work?

IBM,

1307

what happens when sflsiz = sflpag? What are the advantages and disadvantages?

IBM,

1258

how do I play {insert rpg system here}?

IBM,

1094

what is program status data structure?

IBM,

1 2540

what is an online rpg?

IBM,

1330

which program rpg or cl is efficent to update a transaction onto a database file and why ?

IBM,

1309

what is data area and how it is used in rpg program ?

IBM,

1394

explain sflclr, sflend, sfldlt, and sflcsrrrn?

IBM,

1413

what is the syntax of ams modal commands?

IBM,

1339

what how do you initialize a vsam file before any operation? A vsam with alternate index?

IBM,

1072

what are the different types of vsam files available? Explain them

IBM,

1 1932

Un-Answered Questions { MainFrame }

What is difference between static call and dynamic call?

1097

What is the need of running runstats in the test environment?

1153

Explain about set currency?

938

What does sqlcabc has?

1107

Define pcb?

1143

How does cobol compile db2 program?

1135

We have job which is running as batch. It takes atleast 06 hours to complete tht job. But I wanna do tht job with in 3 hours?

1313

How do I delete a column in db2?

1164

How do you run a COBOL batch program from a JCL? How do you run a COBOL/DB2 program?

1338

what is sflrolval?

1148

What is a base cluste?

1191

Code the related portions of cics/cobol-i programs to gain addressability to twa area assigned to a particular task. Assme that the size of twa area is 300bytes. What are the advantages if cobol-ii is used in the place of cobol?

1183

how do I declare a minor?

1219

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... run a loop from record one to 10 evaluate i/3 if comes even then skip else write to output file

1581

Can you define attribute byte?

1081

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