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  1. Can you define multiple maps in a BMS map set
  2. What is the difference between a PF key & a PA key
  3. What are the situations under which NEWCOPY is required
  4. What is ENQ, DEQ
  5. What is the function of the CICS translator
  6. Which is the macro used for making an entry in the PPT
  7. What do the keywords MAPONLY and DATAONLY mean
  8. What is the primary objective of CICS
  9. How do you access storage outside your CICS program
  10. What is the function of the Terminal Control table
  11. Can you access ESDS files from CICS
  12. What is the different ways to initiate a task
  13. What is a Logical Unit of Work (LUW)
  14. What is ENQ in CICS
  15. What is the MASSINSERT option
  16. What are the two outputs created as a result of generation of a map
  17. Why is a TERM ID recommended in naming a TSQ
  18. What is the CICS command that gives the length of TWA area
  19. What are Journal Recovery and Dynamic Transaction Blackout
  20. What is the meaning and use of the EIBAID field
  21. What is the difference between FSET and FRSET
  22. What is the difference between a physical BMS mapset and a logical BMS mapset
  23. Explain the various ways data can be passed between CICS programs
  24. What is the other way of terminating a transaction
  25. How do you control cursor positioning
  26. What is the name of the mapset definition macro
  27. What is transient data
  28. How are programs reinitiated under CICS
  29. Explain re-entrance as applies to CICS
  30. How do you get data from a task that began with a START command
  31. What is MDT
  32. What are FSET, FRSET
  33. How do you define Task Work Area
  34. How do you read from a TSQ
  35. What does EIB mean
  36. What is the common work area (CWA)
  37. Name and explain some common CICS abend codes
  38. What is the common systems area (CSA)
  39. When you do a START, what will the value of EIBCALEN
  40. What?s the CICS command used to access current date and time
  41. What are the two types of transient data queues
  42. What is the purpose of the Program List Table
  43. Can you use DYNAMIC calls in CICS
  44. What is difference between call and link
  45. What do the terms locality of reference and working set mean
  46. What is the difference between the enter key, the PF keys and the PA keys
  47. Explain how to handle exceptional conditions in CICS
  48. Explain the basic difference between Intra partition TDQ and Extra partition TDQ
  49. What command do you issue to delete a record in a transient data queue
  50. What are the 3 working storage fields used for every field on the map
  51. What is meant by program reentrance
  52. What is an ASRA
  53. What is a cursor in CICS sql processing
  54. What are different ways of initiating transaction in CICS
  55. What is the command that is used to add a new record to the file
  56. Can you issue SQL COMMIT from a CICS program
  57. Why must all CICS programs have a Linkage Section
  58. What is the command used for receiving a map from a terminal
  59. What are the attribute values of Skipper and Stopper fields
  60. What is a two Phase committed in CICS
  61. How VSAM files are Read in CICS programs
  62. Which transient data queue supports ATI
  63. What is a map set
  64. How do you rollback data written to an ESDS file
  65. What is meant by a CICS task
  66. What is the significance of RDO
  67. What is the use of DSECT parameter in BMS
  68. Explain the means of supporting pseudo conversation programming
  69. What are the differences between DFHCOMMAREA and TSQ
  70. What CICS command do you need to obtain the user logon-id
  71. How will you place cursor on a field called EMPNO
  72. Why doesn?t CICS use the Cobol Open and Close statements
  73. How do you place the cursor on a particular position on the screen
  74. How to establish dynamic cursor position on a map
  75. How to get the cursor position when we receive a map
  76. What is the difference between the XCTL and LINK commands
  77. What is the CICS Command that is used for reading a record from the TDQ
  78. Explain the difference among the EXEC LINK, EXEC XCTL and Cobol II static call
  79. What is the CICS supplied transaction which performs syntax checking of a CICS comman
  80. How To Set MDT Through Application Program?
  81. What is the function of the EXEC CICS HANDLE CONDITION command
  82. Which option of the PCT entry is used to specify the PF key
  83. What are the six different types of argument values in COBOL
  84. What CICS command would you use to read a VSAM KSDS
  85. The EIB field which gives the last CICS command executed
  86. What is the process of converting the CICS commands into the equivalent host language
  87. What happens to resources supplied to a transaction when an XCTL command is executed
  88. Explain the term Function Request Shipping
  89. How is addressability achieved to the data outside programs working-storage
  90. What is the error condition that is set when the file specified in the NAME option
  91. Which command is used to release a record on which exclusive control is gained
  92. What is interval control and what are some of the CICS commands associated with it
  93. What is the command that is used to delay the processing of a task for a specified
  94. What CICS command would you use to read a VSAM KSDS sequentially in ascending order
  95. How can you accomplish breakpoint in interest
  96. What is the primary function of the Sign-on Table
  97. What are the CICS commands associated with transient data queue processing
  98. What is the CICS command that is used to copy a screen image of a terminal
  99. What are the two ways of breaking a CPU bound process to allow other tasks to gain
  100. Which CICS system program is responsible for handling automatic task initialization
  101. What is the difference between CICS Program Control Table (PCT) and CICS Processing
  102. What is the command which will delete a program loaded into the main storage
  103. What are the three ways available for a program to position the cursor on the screen
  104. What does the BUFFER option in RECEIVE mean
  105. What is a logical message in CICS
  106. What is the most common way of building queue-id of a TSQ
  107. What are the three BMS options
  108. The error code AEIV
  109. What is CECI
  110. What is ATI? What kind of TDQ can be used
  111. What are the CICS commands available for program control
  112. What is the difference between the INTO and the SET option in the EXEC CICS
  113. Can you simply check if length = 0 for checking if a field was modified
  114. What is the difference between using the READ command with INTO option and SET option
  115. What are the CICS commands associated with temporary storage queue processing
  116. How would you resolve an ASRA abend
  117. What is the general Command format of CICS
  118. How do you delete Item 3 in a five-item TSQ
  119. Which CICS service transaction is used to gain accessibility to CICS control tables
  120. What are the differences between TSQ and TDQ
  121. Which is the AID that will not be identified in the ANYKEY option of the HANDLE AID
  122. What are the differences between and EXEC CICS XCTL and an EXEC CICS START command
  123. What is EXEC CICS RETRIEVE
  124. What information do you get when an EXEC CICS STARTCODE is issued
  125. Which is the control table where you specify all the transaction that are to be start
  126. Which type of TDQ is read destructive
  127. What is the meaning of the SYNCPOINT command
  128. What is the COMMAREA
  129. What is the function of the LOAD command
  130. How much exceptional condition can be given in a HANDLE CONDITION
  131. What is the meaning of BMS length of field = 0
  132. What is the difference between START and XCTL
  133. What is the EXEC CICS HANDLE ABEND
  134. What are the databases that CICS can access
  135. How do you initiate another transaction
  136. Where are transient data sets defined to CICS
  137. What is an AEY9 abend
  138. Explain floating maps with illustration
  139. How do you fire a batch job from a CICS transaction
  140. How and where is the TWA size set
  141. What is the difference between LINK and XCTL
  142. Name some common CICS service programs and explain their usage
  143. For a CICS-DB2 program, how is the plan referenced
  144. What is the use of DCT
  145. Name some important fields in the EIB block
  146. What is trigger level in the context of TDQ
  147. How do you execute a background CICS transaction
  148. What CICS facilities can you use to save data between the transactions
  149. What is the command for reading a record form a TSQ
  150. What is the difference between a RETURN with TRANSID and XCTL
  151. How do you dynamically set the CURSOR position to a specific field
  152. What is the use of a TDQ, TSQ
  153. What is a deadlock
  154. What is the CICS LOAD command
  155. What is a resident program
  156. What are the 3 common ways to create maps
  157. Explain the term Transaction routing
  158. What is the access method used by DB2
  159. What is the command used to send a map to a terminal
  160. Do you receive the attribute byte in the symbolic map
  161. What does Pseudo Conversational mean
  162. What are extra partition & intra partition TDQ
  163. What is DFHEIBLK
  164. What is the function of DFHMDF BMS macro
  165. Is there any entry for TSQs in CICS tables
  166. Can we define an alternate index on VSAM/RRDS
  167. Name some of the common tables in CICS and their usage
  168. What are the steps you go through to create a BMS executable
  169. Name some translator and compile options and explain their meaning
  170. Name three ways the Modified Data Tag can be set on
  171. What is some of the information available in the EIB area
  172. What do the following transactions do
  173. What are attribute bytes and how and why are they modified
  174. Which is the EIB field that gives the date when a task was started
  175. What is a transid and explain the system transid CEMT
  176. Difference between TSQ & TDQ
  177. What is the difference between pseudo-conversational and conversational
  178. What is the effect of including the TRANSID in the EXEC CICS RETURN command
  179. How do you terminate an already issued DELAY command
  180. How do you make your BMS maps case sensitive
  181. Which is the command used for terminating a browse operation
  182. What are the parameters that you have to give when you are using the CSSN transaction
  183. How many conditions can you include in a single HANDLE CONDITION command
  184. What is CEDF
  185. What is BMS
  186. How do you use extended attributes
  187. What is the usage of language in the PPT entry
  188. What information can be obtained from the EIBRCODE
  189. What is the EIB
  190. Explain the termMRO
  191. What is Quasi-reentrancy
  192. What is ASRAABEND in CICS
  193. What are the beginning and end points of an LUW called
  194. How to get the sign-on user-id from an application program
  195. Why is it important not to execute a STOP RUN in CICS
  196. How is the stopper byte different from an auto skip byte
  197. What happens when a CICS command contains the NOHANDLE option
  198. How will you access a VSAM file using an alternate index
  199. How do you set the MDT option to ON status, even if data is not entered
  200. What tables must be updated when adding a new transaction and program
  201. How would you release control of the record in a READ for UPDATE
  202. Name the macros used to define the following: MAP MAPSET FIELD
  203. What is different system tables used in CICS
  204. What is the ABEND command and when would you use it
  205. What is the difference between link xctl
  206. What is the content of the PPT entry
  207. What does it mean when EIBCALEN is equal to zeros
  208. What is the primary function of the Processing Program Table
  209. What is an AICA abend
  210. What is CEBR
  211. What is multitasking and multithreading
  212. How is dynamic memory allocated within a CICS application program
  213. What is quasi-reentrant program
  214. How do you access the records randomly in TSQ
  215. What will happen if the TDQ that you want to delete is not in the DCT
  216. What is the difference between a Symbolic map and Physical map
  217. How do you establish a starting position in a browse operation
  218. What is effect on RECEIVE MAP when PF key is pressed
  219. What is the difference between a package and a plan
  220. How does one bind 2 versions of a CICS
  221. What is the command used to request notification when the specified time has expired
  222. Which is the command that is used to dump the main storage areas related to a task
  223. What is the CICS command that is used to receive the un- formatted data
  224. How can you start a CICS transaction other than by keying the Transaction ID
  225. Which of the following statements correctly describe the syntax of CICS command
  226. Which is the program which determines whether a transaction should be restarted
  227. When there are 2 records with the same key specified in a DELETE operation
  228. What is the name of the log which contains the information needed to restart