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CICS Interview Questions And Answers

Mainframes :: Customer Information Control System Job Interview Questions and Answers

CICS Interview Questions and Answers will guide us now that CICS (Customer Information Control System) is a transaction server that runs primarily on IBM mainframe systems under z/OS and z/VSE. CICS is a transaction manager designed for rapid, high-volume online processing. This processing is mostly interactive (screen-oriented), but background transactions are possible. Learn Customer Information Control System or get preparation for the job of CICS by this CICS Interview Questions with Answers

1 What is CICS?
2 Kindly specify the PIC clause for the following:Any BLL Cell, Data type of Length Option field, HHMMSS type of data fields?
3 List the sequence of steps used to achieve Modiication in Skip Sequential Mode?
4 What are the commands used to gain exclusive control over a resource?
5 Mention the 5 fields available in the symbolic map for every NAMED field in the DFHMDI macro? Give a brief description of these fields (Not exceeding a line).?
6 How do you intitiate another transaction?
7 What is the CICS command used to access current date and time?
8 How do you terminate an already issued DELAY command?
9 Which option of the PCT entry is used to specify the PF key to be pressed for initiating a transaction?
10 Mention the option used in the CICS READ command to gain accessibility directly to the file I/O area. (Assume COBOL-II).?
11 How do you establish a starting position in a browse operation?
12 What is the CICS command that gives the length of TWA area?
13 How do you set the MDT option to ON status, even if data is not entered?
14 How do you dynamically set the CURSOR position to a specific field?
15 Specify the CICS command used to read a VSAM record starting with prefix F. Code all the relevant options?
16 Which command is used to release a record on which exclusive control is gained?
17 What is the option specified in the read operation to gain multiple concurrent operations on the same dataset?
18 What are the attribute values of Skipper and Stopper fields?
19 Specify CICS transaction initiation process. ( From the perspective of CICS control programs and control tables.)?
20 Specify the requirements for Automatic Task Initiation. (Mention the control table, it is entries and the corresponding Procedure division CICS command).?
21 What is the EIB parameter and the CICS command used to implement Pseudo-Conversational technique using single PCT - Single PPT entry?
22 What are the two ways of breaking a CPU bound process to allow other task to gain access to CPU?
23 Mention the option (along with argument type) used in a CICS command to retrieve the response code after execution of the command?
24 Into what fields will the date and time values be moved after execution of the above command?
25 What are the six different type of argument values in COBOL that can be placed in various options of a CICS command?
26 What is the purpose of the Program List Table?
27 What is the function of the CICS translator?
28 What does Pseudo Conversational mean?
29 Code the related portions of CICS/COBOL-I programs to gain addressability to TWA area assigned to a particular task. Assme that the size of TWA area is 300 bytes. What are the advantages if COBOL-II is used in the place of COBOL?
30 How and where is the TWA size set?
31 What is the most common way of building queue-id of a TSQ?
32 What option is specified in the SEND command to send only the unnamed fields on to the screen?
33 What is the COMMAREA (communications area)?
34 How many conditions can you include in a single HANDLE CONDITION command?
35 Explain how to handle exceptional conditions in CICS?
36 What information can be obtained from the EIBRCODE?
37 What is EIB, How is can be used?
38 What CICS command do you need to obtain the user logon-id?
39 What are the differences between and EXEC CICS XCTL and an EXEC CICS LINK command?
40 How is addressability achieved to the data outside programs working storage?
41 Explain re-entrancy as applies to CICS?
42 What happens when a CICS command contains the NOHANDLE option?
43 What is the EXEC CICS HANDLE ABEND?
44 Explain the various ways data can be passed between CICS programs?
45 What are the CICS commands available for program control?
46 When a task suspends all the handle conditions via the PUSH command, how does the task reactivate all the handle conditions?
47 What is the difference between EXEC CICS HANDLE CONDTION and an EXEC CICS IGNORE command?
48 What is the function of the EXEC CICS HANDLE CONDITION command?
49 What is the effect of including the TRANSID in the EXEC CICS RETURN command?
50 What is some of the information available in the EIB area?
51 What is a resident program?
52 What happens to resources supplied to a transaction when an XCTL command is executed?
53 What are the differences between and EXEC CICS XCTL and EXEC CICS START command?
54 How can you start a CICS transaction other than by keying the Transaction ID at the terminal?
55 Explain the means of supporting pseudo conversation programming. (Eg. Storing and restoring of states, control flow, error handling)?
56 Which transient data queue support ATI?
57 Into which table is the terminal id registered?
58 Which CICS service transaction is used to gain accessibility to CICS control tables? Mention the one that has the highest priority.?
59 What is the function of the Terminal Control table?
60 What does the following transactions do?
61 What are the differences between Temporary Storage Queue (TSQ) and Transient Data Quene (TDQ)?
62 Why is a TERM ID recommended in naming a TSQ?
63 What is a mapset?
64 What are the three ways available for a program to position the cursor on the screen?
65 How to establish dynamic cursor position on a map? How to get the cursor position when we receive a map?
66 Can we define an alternate index on VSAM/RRDS?
67 Name three ways the Modified Data Tag can be set on?
68 What is MDT?
69 What is the difference between using the READ command with INTO option and SET option?
70 What is the difference between the INTO and the SET option in the EXEC CICS RECEIVE MAP command?
71 What does it mean when EIBCALEN is equal to zeros?
72 Explain floating maps with illustration?
73 What is the differences between getting the system time with EIBTIME and ASKTIME command?
74 Explain the basic difference between Intra partition TDQ and Extra partition TDQ?
75 What is the function of DFHMDF BMS macro?
76 Which CICS system program is responsible for handling automatic task initialization?
77 How can the fact that EIBCALEN is equal to zeros be of use to an application programmer?
78 How can you prevent more than one user from accessing the same Transient Data Queue?
79 Explain the term Transaction routing?
80 What is ENQ in CICS?
81 What is a deadlock?
82 In which CICS table would you specify the length of the TASK WORK AREA (TWA)?
83 Which CICS command must be issued by the application program in order to gain access to the Common Work Area (CWA)?
84 What information do you get when an EXEC CICS STARTCODE is issued?
85 How do you define Task Work Area?
86 The DFHCOMMARA is used to pass information from one application to another. What are some other ways that this function can be accomplished?
87 When an apllication is invoked via the EXEC CICS START command with the from option, how does the application gain access to the common area?
88 In an on-line environment, how can you prevent more than one user from accessing the same Transient Data Queue at the same time?
89 Explain the term Function Request Shipping?
90 Explain the term MRO (Multi Region Operation)?
91 What are different system tables used in CICS?
92 What is multitasking and multithreading?
93 What is the difference between link Xctl?
94 Name some of the common tables in CICS and their usage?
95 Name some common CICS service programs and explain their usage?
96 What is meant by a CICS task?
97 What is meant by program reentrance?
98 What is the common systems area (CSA)?
99 What is the EIB (execute interface block)?
100 What is an MDT (Modified Data Tag)? Its menaing and use?
101 What is a transid and explain the system transid CEMT?
102 What is the common work area (CWA)?
103 What is the COMAERA (communication area)?
104 What is the difference between pseudo-conversational and conversational?
105 What CICS command would you use to read a VSAM KSDS sequentially in ascending order?
106 What is the difference between the XCTL and LINK commands?
107 What is DFHEIBLK?
108 What will be the length of the eibcalen, if the transaction is used to CICS first time?
109 What is the difference between a RETURN with TRANSID and XCTL? For example program. A is issuing RETURN with TRANSID to program B. Program A. is isssuing XCTL to program B?
110 How would you release control of the record in a READ for UPDATE?
111 What CICS facilities can you use to save data between the transactions?
112 What is the difference between a physical BMS mapset and a logical BMS mapset?
113 What is Quasi-reentrancy?
114 What are the 3 common ways to create maps?
115 What is the difference between CICS Program Control Table (PCT) and CICS Processing Program Table (PPT)?
116 What is the difference between LINK and XCTL?
117 What are different ways of initiating transaction in CICS?
118 What command do you issue to delete a record in a transient data queue?
119 How do you access the records randomly in TSQ?
120 How many exceptional condition can be given in a HANDLE CONDITION?
121 What does EIB mean?
122 In SYMBOLIC Cursor Positioning after moving - 1 to the length field also the cursor is not positioned in that particular field. Give reasons?
123 Difference between TSQ and TDQ?
124 What is a two Phase commit in CICS?
125 What is ASRAABEND in CICS?
126 What is the size of commarea?
127 The error code AEIV?
128 Which type of TDQ is read destructive?
129 How many ways are there for initiating a transaction ? what are they?
130 How can you accomplish breakpoint in intertest?
131 A CICS program ABENDS with an ASRA ABEND code, What is its meaning?
132 What is Communication Area?
133 What are the differences between DFHCOMMAREA and TSQ?
134 What is difference between call and link?
135 TSQs can be written in the Main storage or Auxiliary storage ( True or False)?
136 CICS Command level is?
137 Which is the CICS control program that provides communication services between user written application programs and terminals?
138 The EIB field which gives the last CICS command executed is?
139 What is the CICS command that is used to copy a screen image of a terminal into another terminal?
140 Which is the command that is used to dump the main storage areas related to a task?
141 Sync points cannot be requested by the application programs (True or False)?
142 What is the primary function of the Processing Program Table (PPT)?
143 Which is the command used for terminating a browse operation?
144 Which of the following are recoverable CICS resources?
145 What is the CICS Command that is used for reading a record from the TDQ?
146 What is the function of the LOAD command?
147 How do you access storage outside your CICS program?
148 What is the meaning and use of the EIBAID field?
149 How do you control cursor positioning?
150 What is an ASRA?
151 What is temporary storage?
152 What is transient data?
153 What are the two types of transient data queues?
154 What are transient data sets defined to CICS?
155 What is Journal Recovery and Dynamic Transaction Backout?
156 What is the meaning of the SYNCPOINT command?
157 What is the MASSINSERT option?
158 What is a cursor in CICS SQL processing?
159 What is the significance of RDO?
160 What is CECI?
161 What is CEDF?
162 What is CEBR?
163 What is a logical message in CICS?
164 What is the meaning of the ENQ and DEQ commands?
165 How do you delete Item 3 in a five-item TSQ?
166 What is interval control and what are some of the CICS commands associated with it?
167 What is task control and what are the CICS commands associated with it?
168 What is the CICS LOAD command?
169 What is the ABEND command and when would you use it?
170 DB2 What is the difference between a package and a plan. How does one bind 2 versions of a CICS transaction with the same module name in two different CICS regions that share the same DB2 subsystem?
171 How to build up LU 6.2 communication?
172 Why is it important not to execute a STOP RUN in CICS?
173 What is the difference between a Symbolic map and Physical map?
174 Can a program change protected field?
175 What is the difference between physical map and symbolic map?
176 What is the attribute byte?
177 What is MDT? What are FSET, FRSET?
178 When you compile a CICS program, the (pre) compiler puts an extra chunk of code. Where does it get included and that is it called? What is its length?
179 What is the use of DCT?
180 What is ENQ, DEQ?
181 What is an ASRA abend?
182 What is an AEY9 abend?
183 What is EXEC CICS RETRIEVE?
184 Name some important fields in the EIB block?
185 Can you use DYNAMIC calls in CICS?
186 How do you handle errors in CICS programs?
187 What is the usage of language in the PPT entry?
188 What is an AICA abend?
189 How would you resolve an ASRA abend?
190 Can you access QSAM (seq) files from CICS?
191 Can you access ESDS files from CICS?
192 What is the primary objective of CICS?
193 What are the thress BMS options?
194 What is the difference between START and XCTL?

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I want share some my ideals. I hope it's useful:
1.What is the difference between START and XCTL?
answers:
START is used to start a new task. It is a interval control command. XCTL is used to pass control to a program within the same task. It is a program control command.
2.Can you access QSAM (seq) files from CICS?
answers: No


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