JCL Interview Questions, Answers for Freshers and Experienced asked in various Company Job Interviews

JCL Interview Questions

Questions Answers Views Company eMail

What is SORT ? How do we eliminate duplicate records ? How do I select some records using SORT ?

GE, Xansa,

9 36976

what is XSUM in some fields= none, xsum ??

Xansa,

7 68922

We are aware of eliminating the duplicate records from outyput fiel using sort utility. Can we get the duplicate records in to another file in the Same sort utility?

2 9188

Can we find specific member without knowing the name of PDS or can we search a member to which PDS it belongs to? if so how?

6 18254

i have five step in jcl.my forth step is gdg.gdg was abend.when will job complete,hoe to handle you

L&T, Wipro,

3 12270

In one of intervie, my interviwer asked, I have a file which contains 4 records I would like to split the 4 different outputs for each record how to do?

Cap Gemini, Cognizant, JPMorgan Chase, TCS, Xansa,

14 33723

If job is submitted with typerun = hold then how can we submit the same job?

Wipro,

3 14939

THERE IS ONE STEP AS BELOW: //STEPJS060 EXEC PGM=XYX, COND=((200,EQ,JS010),(0,NE,JS020.C),EVEN) COULD ANY ONE EXPLAIN HOW COND PARAMETER WORKS HERE? I AM CONFUSED BECOZ OF "EVEN".

2 8144

There are 5 steps in a Job. How to bypass the first step by making use of only COND Parameter and not using any Restart and IF/THEN/ELSE parameter?

IBM,

11 31727

What are isolation levels? Where do we need to specify them in compiling JCL?

3 9287

TIME parameter in JOB statement or EXEC statement specifies What type of time (CPU time or execution time)?

CTS,

5 15532

What are the default system and catalog libraries in JCL?

Infosys,

2 12081

Wrete a JCL to compare two files and mached records move to onc file & un mached rows wants to another file?

CGI, DSRC, IBM,

13 121838

hi guys what r the diff types of procs in jcl? bye ramya

ACS, Keane India Ltd,

4 9858

i have 1000 records in input file and i want to sort it and the first 200 records to be placed in output file. how to do that??

L&T,

14 26521

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Un-Answered Questions { JCL }

how to run batch program without jcl?

11567

When space is allocated for an output dataset, what units can be used?

1273

What is the significance of addrspc parameter in the exec statement?

1087

Explain the function of the steplib dd statement?

1142

How to override loadlib?

2049

What happens if both JOBLIB & STEPLIB is specified ?

1153

Mention the types of job control statements?

1176

How to do automated restart when a job abend?

1396

How to remove the spaces at end of each record in the output file Via COBOL program? note: The file has a VB length ----TRY

1387

what is SOC4 error?

1238

What is job control language?

1098

List the various advantages of using jcl language?

1461

what disp parameter we mention for creation of temporary dataset so that we can use it in later steps?

1237

what is the JCL statement consists of?

1193

how would you create a temporary dataset? And where will you use them?

1415

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