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

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OS390 (10)
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IBM MainFrame Interview Questions

Questions Answers Views Company eMail

Is it possible start a transaction CICS from job Batch? How do it?

CSC,

5 15821

How do you find which GDG is using which dataset?

Patni,

3 9094

What is Uncatalog dataset? How can we access/use them?

1 25015

WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO A FILE IF DISP=(MOD,DELETE,DELETE)

ADP,

8 50845

in cobol i have one file it contains records like 10,4,23,98,7,90..... total records 100. iwant 10 to 20 in reverse order in cobol environ ment any one please give the answer......

IBM,

2 6817

how many divisions are there in cobol

ADP,

3 8619

how many bytes does s9(7)COMP-3 field occupies?

ADP,

6 26296

The below is the declaration for a variable ws 01 ws pic 9(3). if you want to insert space how will you do that. in which level u should do it

ADP,

3 7510

how will u retreive value from a table.write it with syntex. 01 ws-table 05 ws-table1 occurs 10 times. 05 ws-table2 occurs 10 times. the above is 2 dimensional array..how will u retrieve 1st element of an array

ADP,

3 8155

wt will happen to the step of a job if u code COND=ONLY

ADP,

5 9683

If your job fails at particular step then what would be the return code for next steps

ADP,

3 8468

what is the function of iebcompr?....is it compare record length or characteristics of a dataset?...pls explain with examples.......

2 10780

how to solve u4038 abbend?........

Atos Origin, TCS,

3 27144

when you will get abend U0077?

CSC,

2 20069

HI THIS IS ANIL. HOW TO PASS A RECORDS OF A FILE(PS OR PDS) TO AN ARRAY?

2 5784

Un-Answered Questions { IBM MainFrame }

What is the need to code commits in batch programs?

1202

How to fetch 1000 error records from VSAM file(Eg: 1000000 records present) while getting SOC7 abend ?

2548

what are the codes returned by the ams (access method services) command during the execution in vsam?

1354

What does a COMMIT statement do?

1450

Tell me abt any another framework which is challening for Ibm framework

2164

Explain the maximum number of pcbs allowed in a psb?

3668

What is interval control?

1206

What is speed parameters in define cluster command?

1110

here is my requirement A1 is alphanumeric with value 'A1B2C3D4' as defined below 05 A1 PIC X(8) VALUE IS 'A1B2C3D4' but i need to have A2,A3 as ABCD & 1234 repectively...... A2 = ABCD A3 = 1234 Can you please explain me what are the different ways to do it?

8034

I have a File that has duplicate records. I need only those records that occur more than thrice.?

10021

How do we pass parameters into a CICS –DB2 program

4204

Explain about find and obtain commands?

984

What is plan and package in mainframe?

1001

What is the use of access method services in vsam?

1127

Can you please let me know the centre name of INS certification in Kolkata.

2288

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