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 are the error codes in cobol, db2, cics, vsam , and jcl

TetraSoft,

2 7969

what is psuedo conversation?

HCL,

6 11129

what is the default print format? in cobol

HSBC,

3 11109

how to crack cts interview apps? NOVEMBER 21 2010

CTS,

2 7881

How will fetch last 5 rows from table in db2

6 17695

Syntax for JCLLIB & JOBLIB???

1 13072

how do we prepare test data using file-aid tool?

Syntel,

2495

how to code instream data in procedure?

3 8487

can anyone tell me about paginglogic in CICS,Please?

TCS,

2 11445

why should SYSIN DD * statement should not be included inside a PROCedure snippet??? please answer this.. i need to know.

2401

What is the use of the DELIGHT in Mainframes and whats is use of scope?

1 4639

HOw can I get the negative sign while deduct high value from low value

2213

We know that size of redefine and redefining need not to be same..Then does the below case true 01 ws-date pic 9(6). 01 ws-redf-date REDEFINES ws-date 05 ws-year pic 9(4) 05 ws-mon pic 9(2) 05 ws-day pic 9(2)

Cap Gemini,

1 6399

how we rectify soc7 and soc4 errors in project?

Anaxis, TCS,

1 5913

how to identify the pseudo conversation by seeing the program

DELL,

2 7768

Un-Answered Questions { IBM MainFrame }

What is the difference between a return with transid and xctl?

1000

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

2397

Kindly specify the pic clause for the hhmmss type of data fields?

1002

What is the difference between drop table and delete table?

1123

How to find all duplicate records?

916

In a Natural program i used the below code for report FORMAT LS=132 PS=60 And down the line I want to change either LS/PS like FORMAT LS=120 PS=50, is it possible? How it will work?

1839

Define db2 and its databases?

1007

i have 10 names in an array and my name is one of them also array is not in sorted order i need to display my name using index how will i do this

1471

How to find the UNIT and VOLUME of a (a) KEPT (b) UNCATALOGED and (c) CATALOGED dataset - using (i) JCL and using (ii) ISPF ?

2620

what is s000 u4087 error? please give the all error codes in cobol,jcl.

17802

How can you use dynamic calls in cics?

1003

EXPLAIN MAIN FRAME TESTING PROCESS...HOW TO FIX THE MAINFRAME BUGS?

2484

what is the right time for using in-line perform?

973

How do we get current date from system with century in COBOL?

1324

What is use of restart and how to use it?

1267

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