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

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IBM MainFrame Interview Questions

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what is difference bt COND, REGION & TIME parameters at JOB & EXEC. give an exp.

Syntel,

1 9104

in real time what is the suitable exp where in-stream procedure is better then catalog procedure.

1 3040

hi.... anybody send real time project related questions & answers whatever will ask in interview plz.....help me? advanced thanks....

2484

how to set dependancy for jobs?

4 15307

how to get duplicate records from tables?write qurey for this?

ANZ,

4 9925

which certifications r 4 cobol,jcl,db2,cics what is format of xam n what is importance of these certifications... plz post answer only if u r sure... thanks

1 3052

how can you access index

IBM, Tech Mahindra,

4 9630

01rec1. 05 a pic 999v99 value 123.12 05 b pic 99v9 value 45.9 02 rec2. 05 x pic 999v99 05 y pic 99v99 05 z pic x(3) value 'abc' if rec1 is moved to rec2 then what is the value of rec2?

Amdocs,

5 13504

ID DIVISION. PROGRAM-ID. PLO. DATA DIVISION. WORKING-STORAGE SECTION. 01 VAR1 PIC 9(2). 01 VAR2 PIC X(2). PROCEDURE DIVISION. ACCEPT VAR2. MOVE VAR2 TO VAR1. STOP RUN. if i give 'PI' in var2 then what will b output of progr. any abend?????

TCS,

6 14514

can u give result for the fallowing example... 05 a pic 9(2) 05 b redifines a pic x(2). move 'xy' to b. display a,b.

IBM,

10 12677

By seeing the file itself how can we identify whether it is A vsam file or flat file

IBM,

7 14465

How do pass the values to the parameters in cobol

2 6136

SUPPOSE I HAVE 60 CHARACTERS STING. IN THAT I WANT FIND OUT HOW MANY TIMES 'A'(ASSUME)WILL REPEATED AND I HAVE TO PASS 'E' IN PLACE OF 'A'ALONG THAT STRING.

Wipro,

2 6914

) How do you access the migrate the data from production region to development region

IBM,

1 4594

Where the Plan is located in CICS-DB2

IBM,

2 6340

Un-Answered Questions { IBM MainFrame }

Explain the purpose of the dd keylen parameter?

1162

What is the mainframe testing? Categorize the mainframe manual testing?

956

Can min or max be used with alphanumeric data?

976

Where can program checkpoints be stored for use in a restart?

1433

what is the difference between COBOL2 AND COBOL390?

3049

What is dbkey? Explain.

843

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

984

Explain the difference between record occurrence and record type?

2055

Name the statement which can be used to send data to another mvs jes3 node?

1175

How can we retrieve the total number of records in RPG & CLLE?

652

Why do we code s9 (4) comp. Inspite of knowing comp-3 will occupy less space?

1149

Can you define commarea?

974

Can we call instream to catalog and catalog to instream?

1143

What is cloudant database?

1095

If DB2 query returns in null value, how do you work with it in PL/1?

2360

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