ibm interview questions 17 july

ipavan · New User Joined: 12 Jun 2005 Posts: 28 Location: Hyderabad

hi,
can any one help me please,

1. i am changing a numeric field length from 9(5) to 9(6).
All my cobol programs are in xxx.yyy.zzz pds. How to find this field in all of the programs in the above pds. The above pds contains 150 programs.

2. Can we pass a file through parm, sysin.

3. How to directlly insert records into VSAM.

PLEASE HELP ME

THANKS

kvramanareddy · New User Joined: 24 Mar 2005 Posts: 9

Hi Pavan,

Here i am giving answer for the first qestion.

In the ISPF Primary menu, Go to the Option 3 Which is utulity option, in that go to the option 14 which is SEARCH FOR, Give the string name you want to search and the data set name in which you want. It will display the list where you are using that variable in all the members in that data set.

For reference i am giving the Procedure as follows.

1)Select Option "3"
2)Select Option "14"

Fill the Following things and Press enter.

Search String . . 'Program name'
Data Set Name 'xxxxxxxx.xxxxxxxx.xxxxxxxx(*)

Mentioning the '*' symbol in data set name indicates search all the members in the data set.

I didn't Understood the second Question and I am Not aware of the third one.

Regards,
K.V.Ramana Reddy.

ideas · New User Joined: 25 May 2005 Posts: 52 Location: India

the same JCL which is submitted via 3.14 can be used in =2 options as LIBRART SCAN JCL. this makes it more handy..

notonly4u · New User Joined: 26 Apr 2005 Posts: 87 Location: Hyderabad

shobam · New User Joined: 18 Jul 2005 Posts: 34 Location: CN

Hi,

If you have FILEAID you can directly insert records into the VSAM file.

V.FD panel has the options to BROWSE , EDIT and DELETE VSAM files.
The records can be inserted by typing "I" as you do in COBOL editor.
The records will be inserted only if it is not a duplicate record.

Please correct me if I am wrong.

rjjk · New User Joined: 08 Jun 2005 Posts: 1

yes.

just give as follows

//sysin dd dsn=xxxx.yyyy.zzzz