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  1. If you are current on the owner of a set, what is the difference between an obtain
  2. Is there a application program coding difference between local and central version
  3. How does IDMS communicate with CICS
  4. What is a bind
  5. When you are obtaining next within a set and get a end of set return code
  6. Why would you use find and get rather than an obtain
  7. What is an area sweep and when is it used
  8. What does a status return code of nn29 mean in relation to record locks
  9. How are record locks released
  10. What are the types of record locks and how are they set
  11. How does IDMS insure data integrity
  12. Distinguish among erase, erase permanent, erase selective and erase all
  13. If the stored record is not defined as automatic of a set, how can it be stored
  14. What is currency
  15. What sets will the stored record connect to
  16. What does a store statement do
  17. What is auto status
  18. What is the meaning of 'Copy IDMS Sub schema-Binds'
  19. What is the meaning of the return codes 0307 and 0326
  20. What is the IDD
  21. What does a FINISH do
  22. What does a ROLLBACK do
  23. What does a COMMIT statement do
  24. What is the purpose of a READY
  25. What is a set? What pointers are required, what are possible? How may sets be ordered
  26. Name and explain the three location modes
  27. What is a junction record
  28. What is an OOK-Rec
  29. What is a run unit
  30. What is the difference between local and central version operating modes
  31. Explain the difference between record occurrence and record type
  32. What is a page
  33. What is a region
  34. What is the difference between a schema and a subvschema
  35. What is the return code you get after a successful IMS call
  36. What is secondary indexing
  37. What is PSB,PCB & ACB
  38. What for procopt is used? List some of them
  39. What do you know about MFS
  40. What do you know about DBD gen
  41. What are Twins
  42. What are the the 3 essential fields required for a DL/I call
  43. What are the parameters used in CBLTDLI call
  44. What are the four control blocks of Message Format Service (MFS)
  45. What are the different types of SSA's
  46. What are the control blocks in IMS
  47. What are the command codes and their purposes
  48. What are qualified and unqualified SSA's
  49. What are common status codes that you come across
  50. What are common DLI functions
  51. How many PCB?s can be coded within a PSB
  52. How man key fields and search fields can a segment have
  53. How does one re org an HDAM IMS database when changing RAPS (Root Anchor Points)
  54. How can we distinguish between an online and batch program in IMS environment
  55. Define the terms Parent & Child
  56. Define DBD
  57. How does one reorg an HDAM IMS database when changing RAPS (Root Anchor Points)
  58. which is the first statement in cobol-ims programs
  59. What is Hirarchy Chart
  60. What is a segment
  61. What is a Segment type
  62. How many sgment types can u have in a DL/I database
  63. What is the limitation on the no. of levels in a DL/I database
  64. What is a Hierarchy path
  65. What is a database record
  66. Is it necessary that all the segments in a Dl/i database have key fields
  67. What is the physical nature of a database called
  68. What is a Root
  69. What is a key field in an IMS database
  70. What is the interactive tool to work with IMS database like spufi for db2
  71. What (are sibblers) is sibbling
  72. What is IMS
  73. Which is the DLI function used in CICS-IMS program