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MainFrame Interview Questions

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What is length is cobol?

1070

What is a report item?

1109

Explain how pa key is different from pf key?

1104

What is the procedure to read a statement from tsq?

1039

Every map is categorized into multiple fields, and there are three common working storage fields present for each of these respective fields. Mention those?

1022

What does a cics translator do?

1397

In case if the user inputs the characters which turn out to be uppercase, then what is the procedure to close that condition?

995

Receive consists of buffer option in it. What is the significance of this option?

1002

If we say that bms length of field = 0, then what does that mean?

1223

Can a tsq of one particular transaction be accessed from an alternate transaction?

1 1652

Let us say you have a collection of multiple maps in cics. So if you are asked to determine the exact storage space that is available in a symbolicmap, then how will you compute it?

1099

List out all the tables that are a part of cics ?

923

If we wish to create bms executable, what are the basic steps that the user has to go through?

1058

In a particular cics program, what is the procedure to allocate dynamic memory?

1126

What is meant by an attribute byte?

1008

Un-Answered Questions { MainFrame }

How can I try out PL/I?

1488

How to read the 2nd last record of a VSAM file? (The file size is huge and we don't know the key)

3220

Explain how to convert 2010/02/11 to m/dd/yyy.. With string and without string if any other method... Code?

1111

how is the future of tandem mainframe?

3341

What is the Difference between command attention key and command function key ?

1331

Explain the system transid cemt?

1053

What is the draw back of Procedures? why we are going to Modules?

1745

Explain cemt transaction commands?

1098

Explain how can the attributes of one sms dataset be copied to another dataset?

1171

Write a CL program which will run a batch job at 1 am every night

1069

How can we read file using curser? how to define a curser?

1279

what are transient data sets defined to cics?

1116

)If there are 10 steps in GDG, if I want to refer the step2 after step5 . what should I do?

1971

What is the maximum number of subfiles that can be specified in a display file?

1869

What is the syntax for seeing the columns and data types of a table in the db2 database?

1115

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