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

Why do you use a control card?

IBM, iNautix,

3 32840

How do you submit JCL via a Cobol program?

Cap Gemini,

2 21832

How do you submit a JCL under CICS environment ?

IBM,

1 8733

What is the parameter to be passed in the job card for the unlimited time , irrespective of the job class ?

IBM,

2 10176

Definition of COND parameter in JCL

TCS,

5 26402

What is meant by S0C7 system abend code?

8 31733

How to pass the temp dataset form one JOB step to another?

IBM,

6 25091

What is QSAM error usually when it is occurs?

1 8431

What is the purpose of include statement in a JCL?

2 12670

What does S0C4 error mean?

8 56140

In which table PLAN is registered in ?

3 8776

What is GDG?

1 7744

what do you mean By spooling? Expand SPOOL?

4 17545

For how long a job can be executed continuously in a mainframe ?

4 21921

Max. No of DD statements in a job ?

CSI,

4 19007

Un-Answered Questions { IBM MainFrame }

What is sqlca?

1133

What are the different parameters that are used in vsam?

1204

What is the syntax for creating a table in the db2 database?

1151

how can the same proc be re-used and called by many jobs?

1570

Which component is responsible for processing sql statements and selecting access paths?

1185

hi,what is the module? how many modules in mainframe based banking projects

3045

What are some uses of the evaluate statement?

1004

In which area will you utilize 88 level items in cobol?

1212

What is perform what is varying?

1224

Explain ims software environment?

1042

What the difference is between continue and next sentence?

1227

Explain about find and obtain commands?

984

What is runstats and reorg in db2?

1367

which utility is used to run a cobol-db2 program?

1469

What are packages in db2?

1078

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