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

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IBM MainFrame Interview Questions

Questions Answers Views Company eMail

What are the two ways in which dl/i interface can be invoked?

945

What are the retrieval sequences in ims db?

1356

What is psb?

1032

What are the path calls in imsdb?

2 2295

What does the 'cemt:cics' transactions do?

1204

What is the eib parameter?

1057

What does the 'ceci:cics' transactions do?

1106

What does the 'cedf:cics' transactions do?

1065

Kindly specify the pic clause for the data type of length option field type of data fields?

1149

What are the recoverable cics resources?

1014

How to get the cursor position when we receive a map?

1080

Db2 what is the difference between a package and a plan. How does one bind 2 versions of a cics transaction with the same module name in two different cicsregions that share the same db2 subsystem?

1128

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

1066

How many ways are there for initiating a transaction?

1050

How to establish dynamic cursor position on a map?

1075

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Tandem COBOL Interview questions (on TACL,SCOBOL,ENSCRIBE,PATHWAY0

23641

What is the function of the dd avgrec keyword in sms datasets?

1343

What is the difference between external and global variables in COBOL?

1466

Explain in DD statement what is the use of DCB parameter?

1140

Is there a application program coding difference between local and central version mode in idms?

865

how can you load a vsam data set with records ?

1162

What does the 'cedf:cics' transactions do?

1065

what is an mdt (modified data tag)? Its menaing and use?

1142

Explain the different ways of initiating transaction in cics?

948

How to execute 2nd and 4th steps among 5 steps in jcl proc?

1323

What is universal database?

1069

Why do we use "drop"?

984

what is pdes?

1118

What are iseries servers?

1075

What is role in db2?

1109

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