It was a well-composed interview. The interview process is of high quality. The total process consisted of one telephonic technical round and a managerial round.

Technical Round (Telephonic):

• The first interviewer asked for my self-rating out of 5 in JCL, SQL, DB2, CICS, COBOL, and VSAM.
• Questions were asked accordingly, considering my experience.
• Most of the questions were scenario-based, like how to resolve a particular abend.
• The interviewer covered questions in all topics.

Managerial Round (F2F):

• For those who cleared the technical round, the second round was held on the same day.
• This round was mostly for salary negotiation.
• You can expect questions like, "Why IBM?" and "What do you expect from IBM?"
• I heard from a few people that some technical questions were also asked in this round.

After this second round, they asked me to fill out three forms and I received the offer letter within two weeks.

IBM does not mention variable pay details in the offer letter.

Few SQL errors apart from 100 and 0?

Previous project experience.

What is DB2 SPUFI? How to enter debug mode in CICS? Xpeditor?

Syntax in SQL to fetch only the first row.

What is an SE37 Abend and how to handle it?

What are the types of VSAM? Explain a simple COBOL program if we use KSDS.

What is VARCHAR?

What is the difference between a host variable and a copybook?