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

what is mainframe? what is the mainframe software ? what is use in s/w field?

CSE,

7 12468

what is the basic concept of mainframe? what knowledge is needed for learn this mainframe?

CSE, TCS, Wipro,

4 17031

db2 query I have one table with the following details. SNO SNAME DOJ ------ -------------------- ---------- 10 KRISH 2007-03-19 20 REDDY 2007-05-19 30 RRRRR 2007-05-19 40 BBBBB 2008-05-19 50 CCCCC 2009-05-19 60 JJJJJ 2009-05-19 70 JJJJJ 2004-05-19 i want the output in the following format:( no of students joined in each year(no nedd to consider about month and date) year count --------- ---------- 2004 1 2007 3 2008 1 2009 2

TCS,

9 14247

what will be the output of the below given query, if no matching records are found : (a.) 0 (b.) null (c.) error select Avg(salary) from TableA where Deptno = 'insurance'

Amdocs,

10 16372

How we copy a program from production region to development region.What is the process & syntax ?

CTS,

3 13660

Explain complete concept of table handling in COBOL with an example?

IBM, TCS, Wipro,

2 18807

How to test thru JCL if any file(PS or VSAM) is empty or not. I do not want to use any COBOL prog or Ezytrieve and want to do using utility.

Lehman Brothers,

10 40818

how many bytes do SPPPP999 will store?

18 23801

what is partial serch analysys in cics?

2 5564

what is check pending option

Fujitsu,

1 6286

if we are specifing joblib as well as steplib in job then at the time of execution how the process will complete

4 9272

can we use variable picture clause as xx.99 in cobol.

3 10061

Suppose there r total 10 steps. Out of which i want to execute only the 7th step. How can i do that....????

3 9116

Suppose there r 10 steps . Out fo which i want to execute 10th, 9th and 8th in reverse order without using IEBEDIT. How can i do that..???

IBM, UST,

5 17090

how will be submit 1 jcl by other jcl? means that how 'll submit one job by other job??

Steria,

3 21139

Un-Answered Questions { IBM MainFrame }

What is the difference between pct and fct?

1213

What is the difference between cursor stability and repeatable read isolation levels?

1169

What is fset?

1008

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

1127

If we say that bms length of field = 0, then what does that mean?

1255

Differentiate between hdam and the hidam databases?

1027

Difference between cobol and cobol-ii?

1268

What is blu acceleration in db2?

1065

Give a brief description of db2 isolation levels?

1061

What are various loop types supported by rexx?

936

When would you use abend command?

1165

How to find the number of rows in a db2 table?

1115

Explain the configuration section of a cobol program with examples of syntax.

1191

What are the two types of logging in the db2 database? Explain them.

1071

What are the different types of PL/1 files?

2171

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