CICS Job Interview Questions for Mainframe Technical Interview.
CICS Frequently Asked Job Interview Questions.
Mainframe professionals are invited to share the answers in the comment section.
- Explain what is the difference between using the READ command with INTO option and SET option?
- Can you tell me what is the use of DCT in CICS?
- What is the option that is used to erase all unprotected field during a SEND MAP operation?
- Explain what is the function of the Terminal Control Table (TCT) ?
- What is the difference between EXEC CICS HANDLE CONDTION and an EXEC CICS IGNORE command?
- What is the command which will delete a program loaded into the main storage using LOAD command ?
- What is the CICS command used to access current date and time?
- Explain some of the information available in the EIB area?
- Describe the command ENQ, DEQ in CICS?
- Can you tell me what is the use of CEBR in CICS?
- What do you mean by a transid and explain the system transid CEMT?
- What happens to resources supplied to a transaction when an XCTL command is executed ?
- What CICS facilities can you use to save data between the transactions?
- Explain what are the six different type of argument values in COBOL that can be placed in various options of a CICS command?
- What are the CICS commands available for program control?
- Can TSQs can be written in the Main storage or Auxiliary storage?
- Can Sync points cannot be requested by the application programs?
- Name some of the common tables in CICS and their usage.
- If DATAONLY option is specified in the SEND MAP command what will happen?
- How many ways are there for initiating a transaction and what are they ?
- Describe how can you rollback data written to an ESDS file in CICS?
- How can you establish a starting position in a browse operation?
- How can the fact that EIBCALEN is equal to zeros be of use to an application programmer?
- Explain the means of supporting pseudo conversation programming
- Can you have CICS code in a copybook ? If yes, what will happens during compilation?
- Are sequential files supported by CICS?
- Which option of the PCT entry is used to specify the PF key?
- When an application is invoked via the EXEC CICS START command?
- Can you tell me what is the use of DSECT parameter in BMS
- Suggest an alternate way of terminating a transaction in CICS?
- Explain what is the function of the Terminal Control table?
- What is the difference between getting the system time with EIBTIME and ASKTIME command?
- Differentiate between FSET and FRSET in CICS?
- Explain what is the COMMAREA (communications area)?
- Describe the CICS LOAD command?
- Explain what is task control and what are the CICS commands associated with it?
- What is EXEC CICS RETRIEVE. Explain?
- What is CECI in CICS use for?
- Explain what is a two Phase commit in CICS?
- What happens when a CICS command contains the NOHANDLE option?
- What command do you issue to delete a record in a transient data queue ?
- What are the steps you go through to a create a BMS executable?
- What are the commands used to gain exclusive control over a resource
- Explain what are attribute bytes and how and why are they modified?
- Can you name some translator and compile options and explain their meaning?
- Is there any entry for TSQs in CICS tables?
- If I create a TSQ from one transaction, can I read it from another transaction?
- How to build up LU 6.2 communication in CICS?
- How can you execute a background CICS transaction ?
- How can you set the MDT option to ON status, even if data is not entered?
- How can you accomplish break-point in interest ?
- Explain the term "MRO" (Multi Region Operation) in CICS?
- Differentiate between a package and a plan in DB2.
- Can you issue SQL COMMIT from a CICS program?
- Before issuing an ASKTIME command what will be the values in the EIBDATE and EIBTIME fields if the EIB?
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