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

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 11001

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 12520

what are the control characters used in reports

1 5479

common jcl abends??

ADP, Wipro,

2 32092

what are extents?

5 16661

what is consistency token

3 19585

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

IBM,

4 10678

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

2102

how to view clusters that has more than 10000 records

2 6078

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

4 10726

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

IBM,

4 11076

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

8 27248

How can you split a table in to exactly half?

HSBC,

7 16128

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

11 15642

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

4 17544

Un-Answered Questions { IBM MainFrame }

Define the necessity of run stats among the environment test?

983

what are the reserved words for cics?

1089

What is the device independent method to indicate where a record is stored?

1048

What are the pertinent COBOL commands?

3175

What is the function of //cntl statement?

1336

How do you pull up a query which was previously saved in qmf?

1149

What is the role of the data page in the db2 database?

1027

Explain about few error status codes of idms.

880

Define the term mro (multi region operation)?

1106

name the utility program closely associated with vsam?

1034

How do you select a row using indexes in db2?

1135

Before you give the explain statement, what are the prerogatives?

1036

a dd statement has 2 types of parameters. Name them?

1135

What is qsam? How it is used?

741

What is a base cluste?

1092

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