important interview questions

SMRAJAESWARI · New User Joined: 07 Jul 2005 Posts: 10

Hi Friends,

Please let me know the answer for these interview questions.

1. How do u decide the complexity of the program/event. Have u used any methodology

2 How do u ensure that your program's functionality remains unaltered, even though
u have deleted a para in your program.

3. What is the difference between ISO 9001 and ISO 9002

5 In ISPF besides nulls, How do you create null character at the end of data line

6. Explain exception handling and security in DB2

7. What is EraseOff

9. How do u compile a BMS Map after changing some fields in it.
How do you check its Syntax

10 How do u test the program from one break point to the next break point in one step

11 How do you retrieve the previous version of a program, write all the steps
involved in it

12 I have these fields in my specs -- > Emp-Id, Dept-No, Salary.
Write a program to count the no of employees in a department.

13 How do u convert a VSAM file into ISAM and viceversa

14 How do u ensure that data is passed from Map to the program

By checking the EIBCALEN length. correct me if im wrong.

15 I pressed update option without changing any field in the map,
Is data passes from Map to the program

16 What is Source Contr4ol Language , what are its uses

17 Can u use Renames clause any where in W-S Section or We have to use it as the last entry

18 How many bytes are required for the following declaration 05 data1
PIC S9(18) Comp-3 and 05 data2 PIC S9(19) Comp-3. Do u get compilation
error for data2

19 difference between Goback ad Exit Program

20 I coded two Symbolic parameters first one is coded correctly and second one is wrong.
After submitting the job, which one is passed the correct one or wrong one

21 What is Normalization ad How do you do it

22. What % does Project Management takes in a Project Plan

23. How do you specify a list of Loadlibs in a Job

24. When you compile a program, where will the program is loaded, Why

25. In latest MVS Version(MVS/ESA), what is the storage capacity

26 How do you do the analysis, Coding and testing of the program,
Do u use any methodology/Tools for testing

27 How many types of LRECL are there in JCL

28 Have u used IF in JCL , why do use it

29 How do u Initialize a particular element when I create an array of 1000 elements.

30 I specified access = Dynamic and tried to access a record which is not there,
How do you handle this error.

31 What is the use of String. Ca u use String to concatenate an alphanumeric
data item with numeric, / a numeric data item with another numeric data item

32 Which configuration management

33 What is Endevor, Have u used it to compile a program

34 Have u coded SQL Statements in JCL

35 What is forward scheduling and backward scheduling.

36 Which estimation methods have u used. What are the contents
of Project Management Plan

Regards,
S.M.Rajaeswari

superk · Posted: Thu Mar 09, 2006 1:31 am

Jeez, glad it's not me taking the interview. I don't know the answers to any of the questions, except for maybe #28.

sudheer_kumar · New User Joined: 27 Dec 2005 Posts: 16

34 Have u coded SQL Statements in JCL

Answer:
//UNLOAD EXEC PGM=AISD2ULD,PARM='SQL'
//SYSOUT DD SYSOUT=*
//SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT=*
//SYSUDUMP DD SYSOUT=*
//SYSIN DD *
SELECT * FROM table_name
//SYSPUNCH DD DISP=(NEW,CATLG,DELETE),
// DSN=Control_File,
// UNIT=SYSDA,SPACE=(CYL,1)
//SYSREC00 DD DISP=(NEW,CATLG,DELETE),
// DSN=Data_File,
// UNIT=SYSDA,SPACE=(CYL,(900,750),RLSE)

Control_File
CONTAINS THE RECORD LAYOUT WHICH WILL BE USED TO LOAD DATA AGAIN

Data_File
CONTAINS THE DATA THAT IS UNLOADED AS PER QUERY ABOVE

superk · Posted: Wed Apr 05, 2006 7:05 pm

SMRAJAESWARI, now I don't feel quite so bad, as it seems as if the other members of this forum don't know how to answer your questions either.

May I ask, out of curiosity, what type of position within IT these questions are relevant to? They seem like they'd be for a rather high-level senior or possibly even a management/director position?

kousalya26 · New User Joined: 06 Jul 2005 Posts: 21 Location: chennai

Hi

Lemme try something !

thanooz · New User Joined: 28 Jun 2005 Posts: 99

18 How many bytes are required for the following declaration 05 data1
PIC S9(18) Comp-3 and 05 data2 PIC S9(19) Comp-3. Do u get compilation
error for data2

for this 05 data2 PIC S9(19) Comp-3. It will gives the compilation error.

Thanks
thanooz.

mftrigger · New User Joined: 18 Feb 2006 Posts: 23 Location: chennai

hi rajah rajaeswari....

this might help u for the 35 questin....

Scheduling simply refers to wen a job must run and in which sequence should a job run.
FORWARD sckedulin means (in jimble words) wat r the jobs that must b run once the job has finisd its xecution.
BACKWARD skedulin means wat al jobs must be run before a job starts its execution.

in a figorical representation,

the forward skeduling of job1 is

job1 ----> job2 ----> job 4
|--------> job3---- > job5

which means at once job1 has run, it triggers job2 and job3 and so on.
Hope u understud raja rajaeswari.

10x,
mft ;-)

samchris · New User Joined: 31 May 2005 Posts: 26 Location: pune

What % does Project Management takes in a Project Plan ?
sysibm.sysplan

34 Have u coded SQL Statements in JCL
no.

6. Explain exception handling and security in DB2
exception handling used for error handling.

correct me if i'am wrong

vasanth

samchris · New User Joined: 31 May 2005 Posts: 26 Location: pune

10 How do u test the program from one break point to the next break point in one step ?
USING XPEDITER. PRESSING KEY PF12

CORRECT ME IF I'AM WRONG.

VASANTH