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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 15540

How do you find which GDG is using which dataset?

Patni,

3 8948

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

1 24919

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

ADP,

8 50450

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 6674

how many divisions are there in cobol

ADP,

3 8455

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

ADP,

6 26030

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 7359

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 7984

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

ADP,

5 9436

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

ADP,

3 8312

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

2 10638

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

Atos Origin, TCS,

3 27004

when you will get abend U0077?

CSC,

2 19874

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

2 5669

Un-Answered Questions { IBM MainFrame }

what are decleratives in cobol?

2256

How arrays can be defined in COBOL?

1213

What is a junction record?

1339

Hello Guys, I have 1+ Year Experience in MAINFRAME TESTING. After 1 Week I have an Interview With a Company on Mainframe Testing. Please Could You Guys Please Suggest me What Sections Should I prepare ?? ___Tell Me the Topic Or Appropriate Site & Links. ?? ---------------Thank You

2775

What is next sentence and continue unique?

1044

Can a Search can be done on a table with or without Index?

1289

Have you used the sort in your project?for this type of questions any working on real time project give the eg. with real time scenario.

2429

If an array is multi-dimensional dynamic array how do you deal with it & provide me some examples?

2442

What is innodb buffer pool?

1049

What is difference between static and dynamic call in cobol?

1383

What is meant by bmp mode?

1069

What happens in bind step in a db2 program?

970

by using cond parameter maximum 8 cond can be coded in single cond means ?explain

1457

I had Records in file Like this Company Code IBM 2 IBM 1 IBM 4 WIPRO 3 WIPRO 2 WIPRO 9 TCS 4 TCS 6 TCS 3 i want the record of every company with highest code How can i do that?

10142

How can we see the copy book length using file-aid?

956

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