IBM AS400 Interview Questions, Answers for Freshers and Experienced asked in various Company Job Interviews

RPG400 (448)
COBOL400 (67)
DB400 (96)
COOLPLEX (8)

IBM AS400 AllOther (736)

IBM AS400 Interview Questions

Questions Answers Views Company eMail

Let?s consider a variable X of length 20. Move value ?ABC? to it.How to determine how many characters does X have?

1 6068

Suppose you have 3 members in a database file. How to read records from all the members without using CL (OVRDBF) i.e. Entire process should be handled exclusively in a RPG program?

7 12226

How do you do indexing in a physical file?

2 9694

Can an indexed file be accessed in arrival sequence in RPG?

3 8463

When will DUMP & DEBUG be ignored?

IBM,

3 10084

what is the necessary command needed before OPNQRYF and why?

5 26956

Can you copy the records created by the OPNQRYF to other files and how?

2 8785

What are different ways to pass data between programs and which one is the efficient way?

5 11717

What are the necessary keywords required to code a message subfile?

3 14936

What is the purpose of FRCDTA keyword?

IBM,

3 13119

What is the purpose of PUTOVR keyword?

2 12421

What is journalling and commitment control?

IBM,

3 11240

What is the purpose of Panel Groups?

4 19208

How can a screen field that has changed since the last output operation be detected?

IBM,

4 9100

What would be the effect on the field where reverse image, underline and high intensity?

IBM,

7 16168

Un-Answered Questions { IBM AS400 }

1. There is a file called Month. Month has 12 members called Jan, Feb, ..., Dec. How to design a rpg code which can access any member and show its content. (User can ask for any member when required)?

969

difference between view and index ?

1095

how you get the relative record in a subfile in which cursor is located?

1045

What is a continuation triple?

explain the purpose of keep and assume keywords?

1723

What is program status data structure(psds) in as400?

1034

how many printer files can be defined in f specs ?

1571

What is diff between EVAL & MOVE?

1489

Interviewer asked me write down DDS for load all subfile .can anybody write dds

1664

what is the maximum number of files allowed in rpg?

1570

how can I give more performance to some selected pages?

992

what would be the effect on the field where reverse image, underline and highlight display attributes are active ?

1645

How to define data area in RPG program? In which scenario multi occurrence DS is use in AS400?

1963

when would you use or not use this approach?

1471

what is file information data structure?

2120

For More Un-Answered { IBM AS400 } Questions Click Here