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 I declare the KSDS vsam so that I can store a reocrd with variable length?.

2 11356

What are the default system and catalog libraries in JCL?

2 12167

Hello All, We have requirment to Replace BMC Db2 Load product thru CA FAST LOADPlus product. Do anyone have JCL to for FAST LOADPLUS and what all are thing need to take in consideration.

IBM,

2783

I am new to rexx db2 ,can anyone help me by expalinin how to code the db2 queries using rexx,and also plz send some link and examples using db2 queries.

3 11872

Say CUST Table contains records like: CUSTNO CUSTNAME CUSTLOC 100 ABC SSS 200 XYZ 300 PQR 400 MNO WWW 500 CVV ------------- ------------- Now write a query to retrieve all records with CUSTLOC no data.

IBM,

3 8162

How do you find out whether two Data Sets are having exact Data through ISPF Panel? (Say No of Records, Record Data exactly matching including spaces)

IBM,

8 21026

What are differences between Static Call and Dynamic Call?

IBM, KBC, Keane India Ltd, Verizon,

10 28994

What are differences between QMF and SPUFI?

IBM,

11 41217

What are all things you can do with CEDA?

IBM,

2 10139

Have you entered any program names in PPT or PCT? If so How?

IBM,

2 9935

how can i convert hexadecimal value to packed value?

CGI,

2 10721

how can i get the cursor position in display screen to to display my window?

5 17101

Wrete a JCL to compare two files and mached records move to onc file & un mached rows wants to another file?

CGI, DSRC, IBM,

13 122260

How to insert more than one record using insert?

Atos Origin, IBM,

7 14359

How to update more then one record using update?

IBM,

5 11770

Un-Answered Questions { MainFrame }

What is CICS ?

1054

I want to set position for a particular text in a certain position in several of my cics maps.Please provide me with a solution. Ex: If "F1-Help" has to be set to pos(4,27) always in all the maps within a PDS.

2367

What is meant by idd in idms?

1026

can anybody post me about file-aid and changemen tools pls and give me reference if any mainframe guys are there

2434

explain in brief what are the 3 types of vsam files?

1165

What is meant by drda?

1011

what is cab?

1228

Explain in DD statement what is the use of DCB parameter?

1189

There is one string as A B C and wanted to display string as Shri A Shri B Shri C, how we can do this in sql? If we have around 100 values in string like this, each value should be displayed with initials as Shri.

1235

Mention the types of job control statements?

1232

what are the reserved words for cics?

1160

What is Cataloged Procedures?

1212

what is JCL?

1227

records can be read/update/deleted with which file?

1133

What do you mean by cursor?

1039

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