RPG400 Interview Questions, Answers for Freshers and Experienced asked in various Company Job Interviews

RPG400 Interview Questions

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What hapens when we use CPYF command to copy a LF? On which PF will it be dependent???

HSBC, Systime,

7 18775

what is edit word and edit code

Cap Gemini,

2473

How do I link an existing logical file to it's Physical File without recompiling?

2 8783

which MONMSG will give higher priority in CL program? I know MONMSG are of two types. Program Level Monmsg and Command Monmsg?

1 11772

what is overlay? how can we pass parameters in cl or rpg programing? how can we get data area value in cl or rpg programming?

IBM, Patni,

2 14660

Hi Viewers can any body explain me how to update and ahange the already existed data in physical file using subfile ? please explain me with the code if possible?

1 5130

Hi guys. Im in AS/400(RPGLE,CLP) from last 1 year.Now i wan to upgrade my Knowledge in AS/400. Suggest me some new fields & courses which falls under AS/400. Waiting for your quick Response.

Voltech,

1 5773

we hav job which is running as batch. it takes atleast 06hours to complete tht job. bu i wana do tht job with in 3hours.........? so plz post ur answers

Cap Gemini, IBM,

8 14063

What is the length of Signature?

UST,

3 8096

How can we override a file during runtime in RPG? Without using OVRDBF or calling a CL program

UST,

1 8774

what is ment by "MDT"

TCS,

2 7774

what is file identifier wher we can use

IBM,

1 6126

what are the types of identifers

IBM,

2 7172

Why we cannot call a service program? If I add a PEP can i call the service program?

DELL,

1 7590

1.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? 2. Assume my file has 100 records and I want to see only first 10 records. Is this possible through LF? 3.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? 4.What is difference between Bind by copy and bind by reference?

Virtusa,

4 10976

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What is the purpose of record level identifier?

1123

what is file information data structure?

2185

what are the key words you must use when using a subfile?

1175

give an eg of ACQ-(ACQUIRE),BIT OFF,BIT ON,DEALLOC,DUMP,FEOD,FORCE,MHHZO,MHLZO,MHLLZO,MLHZO,REL,RESET,TESTZ,TESTB,TESTN----GIVE SMALL EXAMPLE TO THE OPCODES...TO UNDERSTAND FUNCTIONING...........

3829

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

2008

How to handle duplicate error handling in RPG?

2298

1. What is bound-by-call and bound-by-reference? 2. Where and why is *Nomain used? 3. What are the difficulties faced by programmers when using service programs? 4. Explain the different ways of parsing and compiling XML in iSeries.

6502

which program rpg or cl is efficent to update a transaction onto a database file and why ?

1238

what is the necessary keyword needed to scroll subfile records?

1154

what is the procedure and explain about real time scenario.

1954

How to select highest score of each subject or how to select highest income of every month?

1759

How to declare the pull button in AS/400..

2323

How would display prime numbers using CL program?

6313

Assume 2 users are using the same file and first user updates some record in the file. Will the 2nd user will be able to see the updated record or not?

936

what is data area and how it is used in rpg program ?

1318

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