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 will happen if i give program name and member name as different? program runs successful or w'll abend?

CTS,

5 12210

what is the control cards?

3 8307

What is the use of DELGEN in DB2? Can we Write the program with out using it?

Cap Gemini,

6 17516

What are the abend codes occour in ur latest PROJECT in DB2

Cap Gemini,

2 8779

Return code 100 means?

Cap Gemini,

6 10840

What is the use of COMMAREA ?Minimum how much data we can pass from it?

Cap Gemini,

7 29943

How can u pass the control from one prog to another in CICS?

Cap Gemini,

10 18564

whar is the difference bwn LINK() and XCTL()?

Cap Gemini, CGI, IBM,

7 14308

can we read in input the file with a variable length ? please , how ..could you help me ?

EDS,

3 9476

example for sub strings ? and refernce modifications whit output pls

College School Exams Tests, IBM,

2315

how to convert fb to vb in jcl ?

IBM, Infosys,

5 46000

If anyone has IBM Certification Dumps pls forward to me & also let me know what are the Certification Codes that are available in DB2

2043

how to display date in reverse order if the pic clause of the is numeric suppose date is 09032010 ==> need to print in 20100309 (pic clause is numeric)

6 9145

I just know the Panvalet dataset name, i would like to search all the members of that dataset for particular keyword through Rexx. how to achive? please suggest. Is it possible to open panvalet member in browse mode using Rexx? Your help would be appreciated very much. Thanks in advance.

5553

How do you pass data from a Natural Program to an External Subroutine? Can it share the LDA of Program as in Internal Subroutine.

4 13806

Un-Answered Questions { IBM MainFrame }

Explain how to receive data passed through jcl parm parameter in a natural program? How data definition is defined in the program?

1125

What are IDMS set of occurances?

1346

What is the advantage of creating the acbs well ahead of time?

1032

How is the record format of an output dataset specified?

1158

What type of SDLC u followed? Why?

1996

Can you define a gdg?

993

What is the advantage of dynamic generation of acb?

934

What is perform what is varying?

1164

How many module come in Ibm framework?

1988

Explain how do you access storage outside your cics program?

966

name the command that is used to dump the main storage areas related to a task?

1094

List some fields from sqlca?

1056

Discuss about changing dataset name in proc.

1233

Explain the difference between intra partition tdq and extra partition tdq?

995

What is meant by idd in idms?

930

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