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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 15918

syntax for all WRITE COMMAND in natural language

7 16339

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

IBM, Opus,

12 33311

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

IBM, Infosys,

2 33669

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 19232

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 36935

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

Accenture,

4 20462

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 19403

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

CSC,

5 13468

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

CSC,

5 15071

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

Wipro,

3 14961

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 8161

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 31765

How many module come in Ibm framework?

IBM,

2005

What is Framework & How it work?

IBM,

2141

Un-Answered Questions { MainFrame }

How vsam files are read in cics pgms?

1315

how can a cgi check whether an ifs object is available?

1111

What is collection in db2 bind?

1027

how many printer files maximum can be used in single rpg program?

1203

What is the function of the steplib dd statement?

1220

Define communication area?

1005

What will be the result if on size error phrase is declared?

964

What is afoper?

879

List down the types of triggers in the db2 database?

1044

Difference between cobol and cobol-ii?

1288

What is the difference between structured cobol programming and object alternativelyiented cobol programming?

1254

What is package in cobol db2?

1125

I have a job called careerride and some steps in it as step1,step2. But I want to execute step2 before step1 ? How do I do that?

1419

suppose if you added a coloumn to db2 table, How would it be the Impact analysis?

2073

Hi Viewers can any body explain me how to update and ahange the already existed data in physical file using subfile ? please explain me with the code if possible?

5158

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