IBM MainFrame Interview Questions, Answers for Freshers and Experienced asked in various Company Job Interviews

COBOL (1072)
JCL (1031)
CICS (755)
DB2 (1122)

IMS (143)
IDMS (107)
Natural (81)
ADABAS (26)

REXX (60)
Assembler (68)
CLIST (6)
QMF (32)

MVS (25)
OS390 (10)
OS 2 (7)
VSAM (319)

IBM MainFrame Interview Questions

Questions Answers Views Company eMail

One program calling 5 subprograms, its a cobol db2 program, after precompilation how many plans and packages will created?

3 18485

Is there any other debugging tool for expeditor?

2 10858

can u run online and batch at the same time?

IBM,

4 10577

How to rename one vsam file as well as it's index?

BEA,

4 27081

How to rename a VSAM file as well as it's index file?

CitiGroup,

4 20571

What it does If we specify TYPRUN=P & it is not substituted by SCAN 0r HOLD in VALUE SET.

11864

Why do we have multiple base registers in certain programs?

IBM,

4 13778

what is amp?

3 9823

Can we use COND=EVEN on a job card, when jobs are scheduled through scheduler?

L&T,

1 6517

Can we use COND=EVEN on a job card, when jobs are scheduled through scheduler?

L&T,

5 13416

how to resolve the file status 47.......

MMM,

1 20221

how to transfer the file from pc to mainframe??

4 9095

how to see the last records in vsam dataset??

1 8086

how to transfer the file from pc to mainframe??

2 19282

how to transfer the file from pc to mainframe??

TCS,

5 15865

Un-Answered Questions { IBM MainFrame }

How is a type of file defined in the jcl that executes the cobol program?

1188

what are the types of abends that occur on job failure? And explain the possible causes of these

1608

What are some of the cics commands associated with interval control?

1026

What is the mainframe testing?

977

What is meant by PPT and what are its uses?

1095

how JCL works?

1257

What is mainframe database?

899

What is db2 look?

1018

Explain the cics command that is used for reading a record from the tdq?

1001

What is the difference between a return with transid and xctl?

1062

What is dbkey? Explain.

840

Mention the option used in a cics command to retrieve the response code after execution of the command?

1099

Can we redefine the field of x(200) to less than 200?

1365

What is the maximum of key fields and search fields allowed in a segment?

994

Explain about find and obtain commands?

907

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