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

perform I from 0 by 1 until I=5?How maney times it will executes

8 16090

syntax for all WRITE COMMAND in natural language

7 16575

1)how to do date validation in rpg? 2)how to delete dUPLICATE RECORDS?

IBM, Opus,

12 33650

How to resolve SQL Code -310. The db table feild is declared as Decimal(7,2).

IBM, Infosys,

2 33795

A Table feild is declared as Decimal(7,2). I want to insert the decimal in to this column thru cobol-db2 program. How should I declare my local input file variable or any suggestion?

IBM,

7 19498

Can we copy a sequential file to a VSAM file ? If yes, What will happen of the size of the sequential file is bigger than that of the VSAM file?

CTS, Verizon,

3 37056

What does this mean ? GRANT BIND,EXECUTE ON PLAN MK2 TO PUBLIC;

Accenture,

4 20578

1. delete is not possible in esds. why? 2. i have 10 records in a esds file and i want to delete only 1st record ..then what i have to do?.. it will not affect any sequence of the RBA. 3. why open extend is not possible in rrds vsam file?

3 19519

if not using the 'commit' when closing VSAM file,what will happend

CSC,

5 13650

what happend with out using Commit,when closing cursor and program?

CSC,

5 15256

If job is submitted with typerun = hold then how can we submit the same job?

Wipro,

3 15098

THERE IS ONE STEP AS BELOW: //STEPJS060 EXEC PGM=XYX, COND=((200,EQ,JS010),(0,NE,JS020.C),EVEN) COULD ANY ONE EXPLAIN HOW COND PARAMETER WORKS HERE? I AM CONFUSED BECOZ OF "EVEN".

2 8248

There are 5 steps in a Job. How to bypass the first step by making use of only COND Parameter and not using any Restart and IF/THEN/ELSE parameter?

IBM,

11 32126

How many module come in Ibm framework?

IBM,

2040

What is Framework & How it work?

IBM,

2170

Un-Answered Questions { MainFrame }

How can record locking be achieved in those DB2 versions which do not support it?

1138

difference between view and index ?

1210

In the EIB block of CICS, highlight the names of few of the important fields?

1100

What is file access opcodes?

1415

hi,what is the module? how many modules in mainframe based banking projects

3046

What Are Send Map Maponly & Send Map Dataonly ?

1274

What is a db2 package?

1134

What does a disposition of (MOD,DELETE,DELETE) mean ?

1196

What are the different versions of gdg named?

1051

How many ways are there for initiating a transaction?

1103

Explain the difference between a return with transid and xctl? For example program. A is issuing return with transid to program b. Program a. Is isssuing xctl to program b?

1107

during execution, an rpg/400 program automatically follows a sequence of operations for each record that is processed. The built-in program cycle includes the following logical steps.

1281

Explain how do you terminate an already issued delay command?

1048

What is runstats utility in db2?

1079

What is the difference between physical file and logical file?

1200

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