CICS - Interview Questions

These CICS Interview Questions have been designed especially to get you acquainted with the nature of questions you may encounter during your interview for the subject of CICS. As per our experience, good interviewers hardly plan to ask any particular question during an interview – normally questions start with some basic concept of the subject and later, they continue based on further discussion and how you answer −

What’s the CICS command used to access the current date and time?

How do you dynamically set the CURSOR position to a specific field?

Which command is used to release a record on which exclusive control is gained?

What are the attribute values of Skipper and Stopper fields?

How do you set the MDT option to ‘ON’ status, even if data is not entered?

Which CICS service transaction is used to gain accessibility to CICS control tables?

Into which table is the terminal id registered?

What is a mapset?

What is the function of the CICS translator?

What are the differences between an EXEC CICS XCTL and an EXEC CICS LINK command?

What is EIB? How it can be used?

What information can be obtained from the EIBRCODE?

What is the effect of including the TRANSID in the EXEC CICS RETURN command?

What is the function of the EXEC CICS HANDLE CONDITION command?

What is the difference between the INTO and the SET option in the EXEC CICS RECEIVE MAP command?

What is the function of DFHMDF BMS macro?

What is the difference between getting the system time with EIBTIME and ASKTIME command?

What is the function of the Terminal Control Table?

What is a deadlock?

Explain the term Multi Region Operation.

What is meant by program reentrance?

What is the common work area?

What is the meaning and use of the EIBAID field?

What is BMS?

What is Next?

Further, you can go through the examples which you have practiced with the subject and make sure you are able to speak confidently on them. If you are a fresher, then the interviewer does not expect you to answer very complex questions. Hence you should have a strong hold over the fundamental concepts of the subject.