Interview Questions

Selling the rights to the amounts owing by debtors to a finance company for an agreed amount (which is less than the figure at which they are recorded in the accounting books because the finance company needs to be paid for providing the service).

- Use a COBOL II CALL statement to invoke a subprogram. This method is transparent to CICS, which sees only the one load module. 

- EXEC LINK is similar to a call; it invokes a separate CICS program and ends with a RETURN to the invoking program

- EXEC XCTL which transfers control to another CICS program and does not get control 

back. 

COBOL II allows for static calls which are more efficient than the LINK instruction which establishes a new run-unit. 

Optimized code tends to run faster and make more efficient use of the system’s resources. Optimized codes are also less susceptible to errors and take lesser space in memory and in file size.

Trigger allows us to execute a batch of SQL code when an insert, update or delete command is executed against a specific table.

Triggers are special types of stored procedures that are defined to execute automatically in place of or after data modifications. They can be executed automatically on the insert, delete and update operation.

MIME - Multi-purpose Internet Mail Extensions. 

MIME types represents a standard way of classifying file types over Internet. 

Web servers and browsers have a list of MIME types, which facilitates files transfer of the same type in the same way, irrespective of operating system they are working in.

A MIME type has two parts: a type and a subtype. They are separated by a slash (/). 

MIME type for Microsoft Word files is application and the subtype is msword, i.e. application/msword.

 Accounts receivables help small businesses by providing quick-time period liquidity. Additionally continued sales on credit provide the  much-needed continuity for small companies.

Copy() makes a copy of the file. It returns TRUE on success. It can copy from any source to destination. Move simply Moves the file to destination if the file is valid. While move can move the uploaded file from temp server location to any destination on the server. If filename is a valid upload file, but cannot be moved for some reason, no action will occur.

A session is a logical object created by the PHP engine to allow you to preserve data across subsequent HTTP requests. Sessions are commonly used to store temporary data to allow multiple PHP pages to offer a complete functional transaction for the same visitor.