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IBM AS400 Interview Questions

Questions Answers Views Company eMail

difference between CHAIN and READE?

8 47225

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 19469

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

IBM, Patni,

19 41434

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

Accenture, ACS, IBM,

28 112071

What is SDA used for?

7 16233

What are Triggers?

Ordain Solutions, Seabus Solutions,

14 31487

Where would you use Override Data Base File?

4 17745

What controls which printer a report goes to?

Wipro,

4 13786

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 12665

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 12489

What is the significance of UDATE?

IBM,

5 23328

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 14967

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 16670

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 11322

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 12834

Un-Answered Questions { IBM AS400 }

how does union file maintains record formats?

1160

When we have a file with Duplicate records and I want to read the unique record from the file. For example a file containing Emp Name as 'Ram' and there are 3 entries of it. So how to read a unique record from File?

1003

What is the interactive job? What is the batch job?

1081

explain sflclr, sflend, sfldlt, and sflcsrrrn?

1393

what is kids-rpg?

1172

what is maximum number of arrays allowed in rpg?

1973

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?

1158

is it possible to create a physical file without dds?

2041

what are necessary keywords to code message subfile?

1817

which are the query selection criteria, which can be given in a query?

1215

what is a logical file?

1910

which of the following operations does not zero the field flda defined as 4,0?

1236

how can database records be read without lock ?

2027

which cl command can be used at program execution to redirect the file named in an rpg program?

1240

what is message file?

1109

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