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

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IBM AS400 Interview Questions

Questions Answers Views Company eMail

difference between CHAIN and READE?

8 46482

Hello friends, i am new to AS/400. Can any one help me in AS/400 i meant say can you send me some FAQS and interview questions.

HanceInc, IBM,

7 18963

What is the benefit of using Externally Described files over Internally Described?

IBM, Patni,

19 40203

What is the difference between a Physical File & a Logical?

Accenture, ACS, IBM,

28 110043

What is SDA used for?

7 15668

What are Triggers?

Ordain Solutions, Seabus Solutions,

14 30420

Where would you use Override Data Base File?

4 17333

What controls which printer a report goes to?

Wipro,

4 13400

What are the values of NUM1 and NUM2 after executing the following code? CLONO1NO2NO3 Factorl÷÷+OpcdeFactor2+÷+ResultLenDHHiLoEq C MOVE *LOVAL NUM1 50 C MOVE *J-fIVAL NtJM2 52

Fiserv, IBM,

2 12377

1. Which Built-In-Function will you use to achieve the following functionality? CLONO1NO2NO3 Factorl÷÷+OpcdeFactor2++÷ResultLenDHHiLoEq C QTY IFLT *ZERO C QTY MULT -1 QTY C ENDIF a) %ABS b) %TRIM c) %TRIMS d) %UNS

IBM,

3 12142

What is the significance of UDATE?

IBM,

5 22860

A particular job executing on the iS is not behaving as expected and is operating in an environment in which it can be debugged. What commands would you use to debug and observe the program?

IBM,

2 14712

What is the compilation option that has to he specified while compiling an RPC program which uses a file having date data type field?

HSBC, IBM,

3 16342

2. Which of the following statement(s) explains the difference(s) between the /INCLUDE and ICOPY directives? a.) No difference, they function the same b.) ACOPY cannot be used as a conditional directive c.) IINCLUDE files cannot contain embedded SQL d.) Nesting /TNCLUDE directives is not allowed

IBM,

2 11003

3. Given the DOS Specification below and the following information: • Indicator 50 is off • No records have been written to the subfile What will be the result if the EXFMT operation code is performed on the record format CTLR? A R SUBFL A DESCRIP 101 6 1ODSPATR(UL) A DFT(’NOT FOUND’) A R CTLR SFLCTL(SUBFL) A N50 SFLDSP A SFLDSPCTL A SFLINZ A 67 SFIJEND A SFLSIZ(13) A SFLPAG(12) A ACCOUNTNO 100 S 10 a.) Only AccountNo will display b.) SUBFL will be initialized with 13 blank records c.) An I/O exception error will occur d.) The screen will display 12 records with ‘NOT FOUND’

IBM,

4 12459

Un-Answered Questions { IBM AS400 }

how to run other job when one job is active?

962

What is the draw back of Procedures? why we are going to Modules?

1725

how may a cgi control duplicate inputs?

1010

WHICH REPLY CODE IS USED BT sftp ? ... (e.g.226 is used by FTP IF FILE IS TRANSFERED)

2114

what is the purpose of overrides?

1662

how do you know that records are locked?

1863

seqence numbers in cobol

3052

What is the use of jdftval in as400?

1347

can a join logical file be updated?

971

How would display prime numbers using CL program?

6251

under given circumstances, my cgi should link to another site. How to implement this?

950

What is the syntax of sort?

857

what is the length of a variable in rpg?

1606

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

1957

what is scan and xlate?

1739

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