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IBM AS400 Interview Questions

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Suppose I have 3 jobs a b and c. I want to submit b after successful completion of a and want to submit c after successful completion of b. Without using job scheduler or job queue, how can I do that through cl program?

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We have job which is running as batch. It takes atleast 06 hours to complete tht job. But I wanna do tht job with in 3 hours?

1212

If my rpg program has a date field, what extra care I have to take while compiling that rpg program? If the file is keyed and I have declared the file as well as key list properly in my program. Still am getting an error message like "chain/reade operation is not allowed" what may be the case?

1055

What are the types of identifiers?

976

How can we override a file during runtime in rpg?

1151

What is ment by record level identifier?

1094

What is difference between bind by copy and bind by reference?

2405

Assume my file has 100 records and I want to see only first 10 records. Is this possible through lf?

1 2016

Suppose my file has 10 fields and I want to make the 2nd field zeros in all records. And assume I have millions of records and I dont want to read each record and update the desired field with 0. Any other way to do this in one step operation?

1 2379

What is file identifier where we can use?

1081

Explain mdt?

1080

What is open data path?

945

What is the primary file?

1063

What is the use of member in pf?

951

Last statement of any rpg program is lr?

1030

Un-Answered Questions { IBM AS400 }

Please tell me how to read the records from a file with load an array of size with error conditions(The logic answer for this question is ARR is array of 99 elements Z-ADD 0 IDX *LOVAL SETLL FILE READ FILE 99 *IN99 DOWEQ *OFF IDX ANDLT 99 ADD 1 IDX MOVE FIELD ARR,IDX READ FILE 99 ENDDO).So,Please give me the complete of this code.

2470

how can you display specific subfile page on the screen in unequal subfile?

1087

where can you specify an indicator in lokup operation?

1739

Difference Between Skip Before & Space Before?

1161

can we use ASCII ,CDUP,SENDPASV commands in SFTP?

3598

can you have multiple key lists for a single file ?

1614

How do you check object lock

786

what are the important factors in error message subfile ?

971

How Chain operation copies the record's data to the input buffer for the program?

1551

What Is Ddm ?

1620

How many maximum record format a logical file have?

943

What is the Difference between command attention key and command function key ?

1317

what is the purpose of the indara keyword?

1692

what is *iso date format?

1018

How to update data area in cobol 400 program?

993

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