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

COBOL (1072)
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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

Say CUST Table contains records like: CUSTNO CUSTNAME CUSTLOC 100 ABC SSS 200 XYZ 300 PQR 400 MNO WWW 500 CVV ------------- ------------- Now write a query to retrieve all records with CUSTLOC no data.

IBM,

3 7895

How do you find out whether two Data Sets are having exact Data through ISPF Panel? (Say No of Records, Record Data exactly matching including spaces)

IBM,

8 20499

What are differences between Static Call and Dynamic Call?

IBM, KBC, Keane India Ltd, Verizon,

10 28083

What are differences between QMF and SPUFI?

IBM,

11 40148

What are all things you can do with CEDA?

IBM,

2 9872

Have you entered any program names in PPT or PCT? If so How?

IBM,

2 9719

Wrete a JCL to compare two files and mached records move to onc file & un mached rows wants to another file?

CGI, DSRC, IBM,

13 121287

How to insert more than one record using insert?

Atos Origin, IBM,

7 13783

How to update more then one record using update?

IBM,

5 11299

How to createing new version of GDG with out loosing the data in preaves GDG version?

Patni, Satyam,

7 19590

hi guys what r the diff types of procs in jcl? bye ramya

ACS, Keane India Ltd,

4 9639

what is meant by online job and batch job?

TCS,

4 11311

is it possible to rename 01 level?

4 10597

in how many mode we can open a file ?

4 8468

what is the purpose of linkage section?

10 19360

Un-Answered Questions { IBM MainFrame }

How do I connect my db2 database to ibm?

988

Why occurs cannot be used in 01 level in COBOL?

1125

Express the distinction between jes2 and jes3?

1113

What is the function of iebgener?

1005

What are the ways fot initiating a transaction?

897

What is an ims database?

1054

What is mainframe cics?

1034

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

1037

What are the retrieval sequences in ims db?

1304

For protecting a transaction using the transaction security function, the two things that must be done are?

2276

Explain about rct.

1026

Can you explain exec cics handle condition command?

1002

What is the function of commit in idms?

799

How can you count the number of rows from a table tab?

1043

what if I need to have the same application running on multiple platforms, such as unix and the mainframe? Does that mean I have to maintain two separate sources?

863

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