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MainFrame Interview Questions

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What is lock contention?

1 5655

Assuming that a site's standard is that pgm name = plan name, what is the easiest way to find out which Will precompile of an DB2-COBOL program bomb, if DB2 is down?

1 4532

What is COPY PENDING status?

6 37048

What is IMAGECOPY ?

6 39739

What are the functions of Bind?

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2 8608

What is a cursor?

2 6579

When is the authorization check on DB2 objects done - at BIND time or run time?

1 13764

What happens to a tablespace when its recovery infromation has been removed and a full recovery is no longer possible?

2 5626

What can the Locate option of the Repair Utility accomplish?

2 5669

What is an access path?

3 6668

What is pagespace?

1 4447

On the create tablespace, what does the CLOSE parameter do?

1 5218

What is an alias and how does it differ from a synonym?

3 13209

What are the advantages of using a PACKAGE?

2 20935

What do you mean by NOT NULL WITH DEFAULT? When will you use it?

3 18979

Un-Answered Questions { MainFrame }

Which command can you use to check for the number of records in a physical file?

1329

write an RPG program to calculate the marks of 5 students (A,B, C, D, E)in 3 different subjects (eng, math, sci) an display on the screen

1324

differentiate between sequential files and esds files in vsam?

1189

what is difference between cobol and cobol/400

22949

How to know whether the module is dynamical or statistical?

1162

Step 1 RC 4 Step 2 Step 3 I want to know the COND parameter which can be coded in step 2 or 3. Step 2 should be executed based on Step 1 RC and Step 3 should not be executed based on step 1's RC

4928

What is a plan and package in db2?

1119

What are the types of record locks and how are they set?

1616

What is the as400 called now?

998

What is a SSRANGE and NOSSRANGE?

1484

Why we have multiple data types in As400 and why we use numeric, packed, decimal, zoned the basic difference between this?

1137

What do you know about jcl?

1151

What happens when you issue a escape routine in a program? Will there be any compilation /run time erro?

1024

Explain the difference between lds and esds?

1051

How to reverse the string in rpg

1826

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