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 a procedure?

1 4976

Can we browse or edit the GDG dataset if it is a tape entry?

4 17306

What happens if both JOBLIB and STEPLIB is specified ?

8 16139

What is order of searching of the libraries in a JCL?

4 11693

What is the difference between static call & Dynamic call ?

3 14339

What are the maximum and minimum sizes of any CONTROL AREA (VSAM datasets) ?

Patni,

2 13272

How to get cursor position from system in CICS environment ?

8 40574

How many parameters are there to a DISP statement and what are their uses ?

3 7847

What is the difference between specifying DISP=OLD and DISP=SHR for a dataset?

CitiGroup,

5 33592

What does SYSIN * indicate?

2 8268

What u mean by include statement in JCL ?

3 29170

The maximum number of in-stream procedure you can code in any JCL is ?

5 15739

What is a COND parameter in JCL?

TCS,

10 64209

How many types of libraries are there in JCL ?

IBM,

2 11558

What you mean by skeleton JCl?

2 14868

Un-Answered Questions { MainFrame }

Explain the difference between and exec cics xctl and exec cics start command?

1150

What is one line to pass PARM from JCL to COBOL?

4958

How can you access qsam (seq) files from cics?

1132

What are literals?

1137

Define perform?

1009

How to get the last record in vsam file in cluster? And how can u get the ksds file records into cobol program?

1036

What is db2 optimizer?

1239

How does db2 sample database connect?

1034

Give a brief description of db2 isolation levels?

1074

Explain the syntax of redefine?

919

Explain sorting techniques in cobol program? Provide the sort file definition, the sort statement, its syntax and meaning

1095

What is meant by dclgen?

1112

How can I try out PL/I?

1517

using dfu, user will be able to ___________ from physical file?

994

When are scope terminators compulsory?

1039

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