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

COBOL (1072)
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CICS (755)
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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

How do you set a return code to the JCL from a COBOL program?

4 29456

What is the significance of 'above the line' and 'below the line'?

Nokia,

2 9051

What is level 66 used for ?

TCS,

3 15199

How do you sort in a COBOL program? Give sort file definition, sort statement syntax and meaning.

CGI, TCS,

7 28848

What do you do to resolve SOC-7 error?

Sun Life, Wipro,

2 13289

What compiler option would you use for dynamic linking?

2 9373

What guidelines should be followed to write a structured Cobol program?

1 4947

What is the purpose of Identification Division?

1 5851

How can I tell if a module is being called DYNAMICALLY or STATICALLY?

CTS,

3 14064

In the JCL, how do you define the files referred to in a subroutine ?

2 10771

COMP field occupy ?

2 8311

for an INITIALIZE and what keyword allows for an override of the default.

2 6015

What are the steps you go through while creating a COBOL program executable?

3 10808

What are some examples of command terminators?

1 8836

Why occurs can not be used in 01 level ?

TCS,

2 9630

Un-Answered Questions { IBM MainFrame }

without jcl how to run the batch programs

2534

What is database descriptor?

1022

What is dclgen (declaration generator)?

1059

what do you mean by a upgrade set in vsam?

1074

Matching Logic in Jcl not in cobol.Could any one please answer this question

4154

I have File 1 occurs 5 times with Employee-ID,Employee-Name,Employee-Dept (EEE and MECH). I have File 2 occurs 10 times with Employee-ID,Employee-Name,Employee-Dept (EEE,CIVIL,CHEMICAL and MECH). In FIle 1 and FIle 2 , for matching Employee-DEPT (Only MECH) , we need to move entire records from file1 to file 2. We should not use 2D array. Your help is needed here.

1566

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

958

What are db2 objects?

1046

How do you overcome this limitation ?

1206

input= ,,,, mainframe training ,,, hyderabad .... location.... output1=$ mainframe training in hyderabad location$ output2=**** mainframe training in hyderabad location ****. In this pgn when we give input considering the spaces the output is displayed in this format.Like in the place of ,,,, $ should be displayed likewise.So please helpmeout.

2224

how you can access an uncataloged dataset in a JCL?

1140

Explain the contents that are a part of dclgen.

1092

What is bmp mode?

3541

Difference between cobol and cobol-ii?

1279

how to convert the recors form vsam file to db2 table tru file aid

3262

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