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 the use of EVALUATE statement?

Tesco,

4 10490

What is the difference between a binary search and a sequential search?

3 8596

What is an in line PERFORM? When would you use it? Anything else to say about it?

4 9195

Difference between next and continue clause

Kanbay,

4 9623

What divisions, sections and paragraphs are mandatory for a COBOL program?

Arigo Infotech,

8 26572

What is the mode in which you will OPEN a file for writing?

4 12678

What is the difference between static call & Dynamic call?

CSC, TCS,

2 8890

What is 77 level used for ?

IBM, iGate,

12 65343

What is report-item?

IBM,

1 6931

What is the difference between SEARCH and SEARCH ALL? What is more efficient?

IBM, iFlex, Wipro,

9 34533

How do you code Cobol to access a parameter that has been defined in JCL?

3 9391

What is the different between index and subscript?

3 8312

What is Comm?

IBM, Kemper Corporation,

2 7622

COMP-3 field occupy ?

8 20342

What is the difference between a subscript and an index in a table definition?

TCS,

3 10951

Un-Answered Questions { MainFrame }

What are the terms cics generally means?

948

suppose I have two tables a and b. Both tables are connected with ssn number as foreign key. I want to retrieve a column data from b table. How will you write a query?

928

what is the compile process of cobol program expalin with code

2504

Explain how do you dynamically set the cursor position to a specific field?

1012

Name the three ways available for a program to position the cursor on the screen?

1015

what are the additional information you should give in the dd statement while defining the next generation of a gdg?

930

Hi, i would like to start a new carrier in DB2 DBA.Which and what all step should i have to take..?

3091

For protecting a transaction using the transaction security function, the two things that must be done are?

2276

What is the importance of common attribute?

1019

What is runstats and reorg in db2?

1242

Give the format of using and giving in sort statement. What are the restrictions with it?

990

What are the advantages and disadvantages of a hierarchical database?

1087

What is the use of uni-rexx?

876

Define cedf?

894

What is the copy idms subschema-binds?

768

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