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

what is difference between Plan and Package

Syntel,

1 6117

How do run the JCL which has 25 steps by skipping the following steps 5, 10,15 and 25 without using COND statement

Syntel,

5 10865

file status 00 is checked after opening the file or reading the file

John Deere,

4 8436

how can you save the query in QMF?IS IT POSSIBLE OR NOT.IF POSSIBLW HOW?

Hewitt,

1 5894

How can u know the current date using jcl?

iNautix, Wipro,

2 14211

What is -904 sql code? How to resolve it?

3 46284

What are the common keyword parameters in both job and exec statements

Cap Gemini,

4 14526

When will we need to specify Space parameter ?

Wipro,

3 7905

Can you delete the GDG base without deleting GDG generations ?

Cap Gemini,

7 23476

In how ways you can pass the data from Jcl to cobol ?

Cap Gemini, IBM,

3 19828

What is the maximum data length for Numeric DataType ?

Cap Gemini,

3 9667

01 a pic s9(5) occupies how many bytes ?

Wipro,

9 30568

What is the use of IEBGENER ?

Cap Gemini, Wipro,

2 9550

How can you declare the file ?

Wipro,

1 5209

How many divisions we have in Cobol ?

Wipro,

4 8864

Un-Answered Questions { IBM MainFrame }

Define dl/i?

3561

How does control intervals and control areas related to each other?

1006

How can you submit a job through cobol program?

1525

I have 60 steps in the JCL and want to Execute Only First from PROC by overriding in JCL ?

1838

What is dbrm library?

1054

Explain the significance of the shareoptions parameter?

1012

What is Pic 9v99 Indicates in COBOL?

1258

Explain the maps in cics?

1176

What is a junction record in idms?

930

is it required that primary key values have to be unique? Do alternate key values have to be unique?

1054

What parameter directs the output of the job log dataset?

1280

Hi pls anybody tell me about " ANALYSIS DOCUMENT PREPARATION AND ESTIMATION OF TASK " (in real time project)."I want to update a sequential file in my project" for that purpose i need both structures i mean analysis document and estimation of task.

2147

What information does a psb contain?

1112

Explain the function of the cics translator?

1042

What is the use of access method services in vsam?

1058

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