General AS/400 Questions: Name: Educational Back ground: How many years of IT experience: How many years in AS/400:

How many years in RPG:

How many programs written in RPG: How many programs in CLP: How many interactive: How many Batch: How many subfile: How many inquiry subfile: How many data entry subfile: How many programs modified: Largest program: Technical Standards followed: What was the role: Who gave the specifications: What is the experience of the designer: Who did the testing: How do you test your programs?: Did you follow any methodology?: Did you do any documentation?: What tools(Word/Excel/Visio/Project):

Interactive programs: How do you display error messages on screen?: How do you display multiple record formats on a screen?: How do you define command keys?: What is the difference between CA and CF?: How do you derive the position of cursor?: How do you position cursor on a field?: Subfile programming: Which op code did you use to read records from SFL?: What is the diff between SFLCLR and SFLINZ?: What is the diff between SFLPAG and SFLSIZ?: How do you control page down in program?: How do you force a record to be treated as changed record?: How do you display a particular record on the screen?: Batch Programming/Report programming: What is an overflow condition?: How do you program for overflow?: Have you used ext described printer files?: Have you used RLU?: How do you submit a report program?: How do you pass parm to a batch program?: What is OPNQRYF?: What is the advantage/disadvantage of it?: How do you write report program that will extract records from file and sort and print:

CL Programming: What is MONMSG: How do you read file in a CL program?: How do you update a file in a CL program?: How do you change a data area in a CL program?: How do you declare/change a variable in a CLP?: How do you comment a line in a CLP?: How do you write a loop in a CLP? Database: What is a field reference file? What is the diff between a file and a member and a record format? How many members does a file have in your application? How many record formats does a file have in your application? What is a joined logical file? How do you define a key? How do you format display/printer to show/print commas, slashes?: How do you display a field conditionally?: How can you selectively activate a command key? How does record locking work in AS/400? How do you control record locking in your application? What is a file information data structure? Have you used it? How and why? Where do you define it in your RPG program? What DDS keywords do you need to use for a subfile programming? What is a shared ODP? Can an ODP shared across jobs? How can you control opening of a file in your program? RPG Questions: What is a data structure?:

What is an external data structure? What is a multiple occurrence data structure? How do you access it? What is an array? What is difference between compile time array and runtime array? Where do you define compile time array? Have you used arrays in your application? What is PSSR and INFSR? What is INZSR? What is the difference between DOW and DOU? What is SETLL/SETGT? How do you pass parameters between programs? How do you get all records with same company code? What is a switch?

AS/400 Concepts: What is QGPL?: What is QTEMP?: What is LDA?: What is data area? How do you create a data area? How do you access data area? What is a library list? What is a current library? How do you control library list? What is a group profile? How do you find logincal files for a physical file? How do you find physical file for a logical file? Can same object and type be in different library? Where will system access the object from? Can same object but different type be in the same library?