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

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IBM MainFrame Interview Questions

Questions Answers Views Company eMail

what is difference between call and link ?

IBM,

3 14933

How To Set MDT(Modified Data Tag) Thru Application Program? (Dynamically)?

IBM,

2 20503

Explain re-entrancy as applies to CICS.

IBM,

1 5377

What is the CICS supplied transaction which performs syntax checking of a CICS command?

3 7818

What is transient data?

IBM,

1 6247

How are programs reinitiated under CICS ?

ITC Infotech,

1 7050

In which table would you make an entry for a BMS map?

IBM,

2 10451

What is task control and what are the CICS commands associated with it?

IBM,

2 7287

Explain the difference among the EXEC LINK, EXEC XCTL and Cobol II static call statements in CICS.

2 9021

What CICS command would you use to read a VSAM KSDS sequentially in ascending order?

1 8859

Which command is used to release a record on which exclusive control is gained?

1 7660

What is the command that is used to delay the processing of a task for a specified time interval

1 4903

What is interval control and what are some of the CICS commands associated with it?

IBM,

2 9930

When you compile a CICS program, the (pre)compiler puts an extra chunk of code. Where does it get stored

1 6012

What is the error condition that is set when the file specified in the NAME option is not in the FCT?

UHG,

1 7117

Un-Answered Questions { IBM MainFrame }

Whats the difference between search & search ALL?

6670

Explain the mdt in cics?

1234

Portfolio analysis application is an example of?

1222

State the maximum number of tables that can be joined?

1043

Discuss some of the terminology of idms.

995

What are the parameter we cannot use in procedure? How many instream we can write in single jcl?

1133

What is image copy in db2?

1080

What is a dbrm in db2?

1082

What is the difference between oracle and db2?

1177

What are the disadvantages of a hierarchical database?

3349

State the various causes of s0c1, s0c5 and s0c7.

1148

What does db2 stand for?

1095

Explain how many work file we can code in jcl?

1049

PLEASE SEND ME THE DOCUMENTS IF ANY ONE HAVE REGARDING THE IMPACT ANALYSYS,REVIEWS

2460

What is cobol coding sheet?

1301

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