IDMS Interview Questions
- What is a bind?
- What is a page?
- What is the IDD?
- What is DB-Key?
- What is a region?
- What is currency?
- What is a run unit?
- What is autostatus?
- What is an OOK-Rec?
- What does a FINISH do?
- What is a junction record?
- What is currency in IDMS?
- What is autostatus in IDMS?
- What does a ROLLBACK do?
- How are record locks released?
- What does a store statement do?
- What is the purpose of a READY?
- What does a COMMIT statement do?
- How does IDMS insure data integrity?
- What is an area sweep and when is it used?
- How does IDMS communicate with CICS?
- What sets will the stored record connect to?
- Name and explain the three location modes?
- Why would you use find and get rather than an obtain?
- What is the meaning of the return codes 0307 and 0326?
- What are the types of record locks and how are they set?
- What is the meaning of ‘Copy IDMS Subschema-Binds’?
- What is the difference between a schema and a subschema?
- Explain the difference between record occurrence and record type?
- What is the difference between a schema and a subschema in IDMS?
- Distinguish among erase, erase permanent, erase selective and erase all?
- What does a status return code of nn29 mean in relation to record locks?
- What is the difference between local and central version operating modes?
- What is a set? What pointers are required, what are possible? How may sets be ordered?
- So manual and automatic are the connect options for a set. What are the disconnect options?
- Is there a application program coding difference between local and central version mode?
- What is a set in IDMS? What pointers are required, what are possible? How may sets be ordered?
- If you are current on the owner of a set, what is the difference between an obtain next and obtain first?
- If the stored record is not defined as automatic of a set, how can it be stored as a member of the set?
- When you are obtaining next within a set and get a end of set return code, on what record are you now current?