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

CICS Interview Questions

Questions Answers Views Company eMail

Explain re-entrancy as applies to CICS.

IBM,

1 5203

What is the CICS supplied transaction which performs syntax checking of a CICS command?

3 7573

What is transient data?

IBM,

1 6092

How are programs reinitiated under CICS ?

ITC Infotech,

1 6874

In which table would you make an entry for a BMS map?

IBM,

2 10177

What is task control and what are the CICS commands associated with it?

IBM,

2 7116

Explain the difference among the EXEC LINK, EXEC XCTL and Cobol II static call statements in CICS.

2 8829

What CICS command would you use to read a VSAM KSDS sequentially in ascending order?

1 8716

Which command is used to release a record on which exclusive control is gained?

1 7499

What is the command that is used to delay the processing of a task for a specified time interval

1 4739

What is interval control and what are some of the CICS commands associated with it?

IBM,

2 9716

When you compile a CICS program, the (pre)compiler puts an extra chunk of code. Where does it get stored

1 5796

What is the error condition that is set when the file specified in the NAME option is not in the FCT?

UHG,

1 6934

How do you define Task Work Area?

IBM,

1 6547

Can you use DYNAMIC calls in CICS ?

IBM,

2 7495

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Un-Answered Questions { CICS }

What is the cics command level?

999

What are the cics commands associated with task control?

961

which cics service transaction is used to gain accessibility to cics control tables? Mention the one that has the highest priority.?

1156

What is program reentrance?

1114

how do you intitiate another transaction?

1125

what is the most common way of building queue-id of a tsq?

1048

Can you explain multitasking and multithreading?

1087

What is cics load command?

1002

Explain how to build up lu 6.2 communication?

994

how a data in physical and symbolic map gets treated? Since the physical map is much concerned about the screen alignment and the field positions, how the values entered in the field which has PICIN or PICOUT clause in Physical map gets treated? Does that mean datas recieved or sent to the physical map should be constant? How does the data in Symbolic map gets converted with 5suffix namely F,L,A,I and O. For example EMPNO is treated as EMPNOI, EMPNOO, EMPNOA, EMPNOL and EMPNOF. how does this happen in symbolic map. Please provide your inputs on the above and kindly correct me if I am wrong.

2646

when an apllication is invoked via the exec cics start command with the from option, how does the application gain access to the common area?

1030

Explain how many conditions can you include in a single handle condition command?

990

What is the difference between SEND MAP DATAONLY and SEND MAP MAPONLY ?

1204

Explain how do you control cursor positioning?

967

Let us say you have a collection of multiple maps in cics. So if you are asked to determine the exact storage space that is available in a symbolicmap, then how will you compute it?

1096

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