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

COMMIT & ROLLBACK WE WILL NOT USE IN CICS PROGRAMMING INSTEAD OF COMMIT WE USE SYNC POINT THEN WT WE USE FOR ROLL BACK?

3 10068

how can you identify wheather the program is using search or search all in the cobol program?

iGate,

5 10716

how to code in cobol while using variable block file?

1 6479

i have a variable block which is used in my cobol program as input file having records of 4080 after compilation while runing the program im getiing file attribut mismatch and it is saying tht the record length of the file is 4084 can any one knw the answer how to reslove it ?

2 6135

whn do i get soc7 abend while moving alphanumeric to numeric or while moving numeric to aplhanumeric please reply ASAP?

9 16789

HOW TO SORT RECORDS IN VSAM FILE?

3 23994

I HAVE A VB BLOCK WHICH IS USED AS INPUT IN COBOL CONATINING SOME RECORDS CAN I CHANGE THE FILE FROM VB TO FB?

2555

HOW TO CONVERT VARIABLE BLOCK TO FIXED BLOCK ?

IBM,

1 32580

HOW TO MOVE REDEFINES CLAUSE FROM INPUT TO OUTPUT ?

1 4504

Did anybody attend the walkin of TCS on 31st July in Gurgaon for any technology,If u have completed 3 round i.e till the HR round,have u received the Offer letter yet? Please let me know.Thanks.

1 4350

I HAVE 500 ROW TO UPDATE I WOULD LIKE TO USE ROLLBACK ALONG WITH COMMIT.WHAT IS THE SYNTAX TO CODE COMMIT AND ROLLBACK FOR EVERY 100 ROWS.AND HOW THE CURSOR ROLLBACK TO THE LAST COMMITTING POINT.

ITC Infotech, Syntel,

3202

what is the syntax for FOR UPDATE CLAUSE in cursor declaration and how can u update using cursor? is it possible to update multiple rows at a time.

Syntel,

2 12420

OUTER JOINS USED TO GET MATCHING AND NONMATCHING ROWS FORM 2 OR MORE TABLES BASED ON COLUMNS. SIMPLE JOINS ALSO DO THE SAME THEN WHAT IS THE USE OF OUTER JOINS.

Syntel,

1 6756

TYPES OF SORTINGS. which is more prefarable.

Syntel, TCS,

2 8520

What is the difference b/w the CLASS,TIME,PRTY in jcl job card.

Syntel,

4 20427

Un-Answered Questions { IBM MainFrame }

Explain difference between call and link?

1091

What is the difference between structured cobol programming and object alternativelyiented cobol programming?

1237

What is the main function of the sign-on table?

1075

what are the idcams commands that can be used for vsam and explain each of them.

984

Explain the process in which flat files are converted into vsam files?

1001

What is the advantages of using IDMS compared to other database systems?

1387

Explain the contents that are a part of dclgen.

1089

What type of SDLC u followed? Why?

1996

How to Get Information About the Tables?

1683

Describe the benefits of drda?

953

Explain path?

998

My program has an array defined to have 10 items. Due to a bug, I find that even if the program access the 11th item in this array, the program does not abend. What is wrong with it?

1069

Why do we need integrated cics translator?

1053

Can you define mdt?

1083

What is idms?

858

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