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

How do you load a VSAM data set with records ?

2 7302

Can the OCCURS clause be at the 01 level?

Oracle,

8 22256

Can you define multiple maps in a BMS mapset?

CTS,

6 16855

I want to fetch the 10th row of a table which has been changed.How can I do it without going thru all the rows.

5 10811

I am getting a error multiple row fetched while executing a Cobol-DB2 program.How can I solve it without using a cursor.

8 21102

Can we find specific member without knowing the name of PDS or can we search a member to which PDS it belongs to? if so how?

6 18277

difference betwen keywords and opcodes

3 9571

How to create a link between multiple maps in a mapset? How to make use of Transid in this case?

1888

How to create a table using embedded sql?

1 5955

i have two file one is ksds another one is esds i want store matching records in flat file how to you matching.

Wipro,

2 10415

i have five step in jcl.my forth step is gdg.gdg was abend.when will job complete,hoe to handle you

L&T, Wipro,

3 12289

In one of intervie, my interviwer asked, I have a file which contains 4 records I would like to split the 4 different outputs for each record how to do?

Cap Gemini, Cognizant, JPMorgan Chase, TCS, Xansa,

14 33796

how will u find out 3rd week's 2nd day using occurs ?

L&T,

3 9810

Read filea And file b write the same records in both files? Records in a but not in b record in b but not in a

TCS,

3 8755

How will you find the currepted records in a file

2 6673

Un-Answered Questions { MainFrame }

How do you get parameter from JCL to PL1?

2442

which are the member types which seu supports?

1358

What is a bind in idms?

886

Which isolation level provides highest data integrity?

1133

What is currency in idms?

977

what is full form for dds?

1218

what is file information data structure?

2217

in order to execute step2 a job after a return code of 8 in step1, what condition you will code in step2?

2720

What is use of restart and how to use it?

1325

i was faced one question- i have value -00001234.56 Suppress the zeroes and the output should be -1234.56 But Not - 1234.56 spaces should not be available after suppressing the zeroes. logic in jcl and cobol?

1336

What is universal database?

1082

Mention the location where the output received from explain statement is stored.

1140

explain about maximum displacement and how to cross this limit?

1155

Mainframes gets a text file that contains the name of the file. Now using JCL i want to locate that file name in the mainframe system and perform further processing. Please tell how to proceed

2576

What parameter of the job statement is used to limit the cpu time consumed by the job?

1291

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