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

if i have 3 fields and i declare IC for all of them .. Then where will the cursor after sending map? pls give explanation (it will be so kind)

CICS,

5 10737

i have the job which has written updated 100 records into the table and for 101th record it got abended and i want to start the job again and should wirte from 101th record not from 1st record..how to do it..?

6 12284

what are the control characters used in reports

1 5398

common jcl abends??

ADP, Wipro,

2 31968

what are extents?

5 16417

what is consistency token

3 19426

if one db2 pgm calls another db2 pgm. how many plans do we need. what r the steps involved..

IBM,

4 10502

can any body give me any website for getting help on mainframe projectts in banking domain.

2050

how to view clusters that has more than 10000 records

2 5967

what is the input to PLAN? what is the input to DBRM?

4 10545

if you have big pgm. during compilation is abends with (soc7)how do you know which line has soc 7 error.

IBM,

4 10885

How to send notification to multiple users through jcl???

8 26886

How can you split a table in to exactly half?

HSBC,

7 15831

1.Can we define condition-name conditions in FD entry.

11 15228

how to create a member or sequential dataset through tso command??

4 17353

Un-Answered Questions { IBM MainFrame }

Why is free space left in ksds dataset?

1063

Discuss about changing dataset name in proc.

1175

How can we read records for specific member in CL? AND rpg?

649

i need a small 3d program using inline and outline.

2169

How To Compile The COBOL-BD2-CI CS Programs In Real TIme? Please Give Me the Detailed Description?

6642

Explain how can you do the explain of a dynamic sql statement?

1066

how JCL works?

1213

What is timing concept in mainframe?

2147

How can you do the explain of a dynamic sql statement?

1018

Explain how and where is the twa size set?

1006

What do you understand by the term “keyword” with respect to jcl and what is the opposite of the term?

1082

What is qmf?

914

Explain the difference between cics program control table (pct) and cics processing program table (ppt)?

989

Explain the difference between intra partition tdq and extra partition tdq?

945

Mention the content that is present inside a PPT ?

940

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