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How to perform Load / Unload – What are the data sets, how to specific the table structures, is it

necessary to have the table structure defined in UNLOAD etc..

What is REORG, RUNSTATS ? How to do that ? Why RUNSTAT needed ?

What are the Isolation levels ?


- More questions on Uncommitted Read(UR) – What will happen while updating a table with
isolation level UR
Views
- What are Views ?
- Can the views be updated ? How, what etc..

How to implement a commit & restart logic in COBOL program – Ex. A program processing 1 million
records fail after processing 50000 records…how to take care of that scenario..

How to create DB2 table, indexes etc. ? Expected DDL statements.

DB2 Performance tuning

How to declare and use a cursor ? Why cursor needed?

SQL CODES – 100, -180, -310, -922, -305 etc..

Usage of Null Indicator , what are the Null indicator values ?

Join SQL – What , why etc..can ask to write to a join sql..

How to develop a COBOL/DB2 program ? – What will be coded in COBOL (Ex. DCLGEN, SQLCA, EXEC SQL
etc.). Complete bind process, plan, package, access path etc. expected

What is Static and Dynamic call in COBOL ? Need expiation with pros and cons of each. How to call
Statically / Dynamically?

A table contain a column ‘Gender’ with values ‘M’ or ‘F’ – While select how can we get it as ‘Male’ or
‘Female’ and how to take care if value is not ‘M’ or ‘F’…

Group by and order by – Can they both be given in the same SQL ? If so how and what happens ?

What is ‘Having’ clause in DB2 ?

Suppose if I declare a field in db2 table with decimal data type field decimal(9,2) in a table,
how many bytes it will take in db2 and how many bytes it will take in cobol? – Basically the candidate is
expected to know the DB2 data types and the equivalent COBOL or PL/1 data types, what are the size of
each etc..

Suppose I want to remove a column from a DB2 table. How will I know what are the programs impacted
because of that (not by searching the COBOL programs)
- Expected answer is by querying one of the SYSIBM.SYSCOLUMNS and joining with
SYSIBM.SYSPACKAGES

COBOL Program A calling Program B – How will be the Linkage section / Procedure division USING etc…?

How to pass parameters from JCL to COBOL – How it will be taken care in COBOL ?

Consider the below Evaluate statement and say which all perform statements will be executed.

X=5

Evaluate when x < 10


Perform ABCD
Evaluate when x < 6
Perform DEFG
Evaluate when x = 5
Perform IJKZ
Otherwise
Perform JFHGH

Ans : Only Perform ABCD will be executed. Whichever condition met first will be executed

In the same statements above what will happen if the Otherwise statement is not coded ?

A COBOL program doing computation based on data read from a file..Abends..How to find where it
abended, what values are causing the problem etc??

What situations we get SOC7 abend ? – Ex. Initialized numeric variables used in computation or moving
non-numeric values to numeric variables etc..

A variable with length 100.. It contains value only in the first 10 positions.. How to get only the values
present in the first 10 positions. And how to get that length ? In this case the length should be 10.
Expected answer is usage of Inspect verb to achieve this.

What are the applications of ‘Inspect’ Verb?

Difference between ‘Go Back’ & ‘STOP RUN’ in COBOL

PL/1

File handling in PL/1 - If a file has to be used what are the different steps to code? Is Open file statement
mandatory in PL/1?

What are the storage classes in PL/1 – Explain each.


Dynamic Arrays – How to create array dynamically…How to use pointers in dynamic array and refer to a
Particular position

Static & dynamic calls

Data types in PL/1

PL/1 Built in functions – Ex. Verify, Index, Translate etc..Difference b/w verify & INDEX

JCL
- JCL with 3 steps , Step1, Step2,Step3 Fails in step 2..How to skip Step2 and restart from Step3..
- What are the disposition parameters? What is the diff between MOD & OLD?
- How to do a RESTART on a PROC step?
- How to create a VSAM File?
- How to create a GDG? What are the parameters in the GDG creation? What is the difference
between SCRATCH & EMPTY? What is the use of LIMIT parameter?
Sort

- File 1 contains Account No, Type of account etc..


- File 2 contains, Account No, Account Holder Name & address

How to get the Account No from File 1 , Account Holder Name & Address from File 2 in a third file…It
may also happen that there is no matching records in File 2. How to take care of this scenario?

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