Mainframe Interview Questions

- NOHANDLE is an option that can be specified along with abnormal condition during program execution.

- When the exception occurs, no action is performed during execution of NOHANDLE command.

- The abnormal condition is ignored, even the EXEC CICS HANDLE condition exist.

- The abnormal condition is also ignored when EXEC CICS IGNORE condition is tested.

- The previous HANDLE CONDITION for other commands will not be effected with NOHANDLE option.

Syntax:

SORT   file-1 ON ASCENDING/DESCENDING KEY key....

USING  file-2

GIVING file-3.

USING can be substituted by INPUT PROCEDURE IS para-1 THRU para-2

GIVING can be substituted by OUTPUT PROCEDURE IS para-1 THRU para-2.

file-1 is the sort workfile and must be described using SD entry in FILE SECTION.

file-2 is the input file for the SORT and must be described using an FD entry in FILE SECTION and SELECT clause in FILE CONTROL.

file-3 is the outfile from the SORT and must be described using an FD entry in FILE SECTION and SELECT clause in FILE CONTROL.

file-1, file-2 & file-3 should not be opened explicitly.

INPUT PROCEDURE is executed before the sort and records must be RELEASEd to the sort work file from the input procedure.

OUTPUT PROCEDURE is executed after all records have been sorted. Records from the sort work file must be RETURNed one at a time to the output procedure.

 -1 indicates the field is null

 0 indicates the field is not null

 -2 indicates the field is truncated

Autostatus is a protocol mode which causes the expansion of each DML statement to include a 'perform IDMS-Status' statement.

You must code EXEC CICS ASSIGN with the OPENID option.

They communicate via service MVS request calls.

While allocating KSDS Datasets, free space is declared at regular intervals at the time of initial loading. This is done because this free space is utilized for keeping the data arranged in sequence physically, even though inserted randomly.

If any one want to restrict Trans-ID to single user, enter trans-id with ENQ. It won't allow any one else to use the same trans-id.