JCL Interview Questions
Questions Answers Views Company eMail

after submiting the jcl.how do you know that the job has been completed.

ACS,

4 7642

how do you resolve for soc7 error

ACS, iGate,

6 19564

I have a PDS and want to omit few rows of all members of a PDS. How to do it?

Accenture,

6 11715

I have a Symbolic Parameter which can have a value say 01 or 02 etc. Now consider i have another Symbolic parameters which is used to get 3 digit code of months (JAN, FEB, etc) but for that i need to check the first symbolic parameter's value and provide its corresponding month's name in the second symbolic parameter. Say IF sym1 = 01 then sym2='Jan' ENDIF etc... In JCL, IF condition is used for RC, ABEND purposes of a step etc. When i use Symbolic parameter in IF clause it is showing Error message. Is there a way to get the above result possible in JCL. If you could provide me with an example, i would understand it better.

2621

How can i execute 5th step without executing first 4 steps?

4 8113

what are the options in file-aid to edit vsam dataset and to compare data sets.

Ocwen,

2 9672

how can we pass external data to instream procedures

IBM, Infosys, Ocwen,

5 11599

What is difference between Return Code, user completion code, Abend code and reason Code?

IBM, Satyam, Wipro,

2 13263

If the COND parameter is specified in both the JOB and EXEC statements, which one will take precedence? If JOB takes priority and if all the conditions evaluate to false, then will the conditions on the EXEC step be evaluated next?

Wipro,

4 16461

Suppose a proc step has a DD statement like //ABC DD DSN=TEST.FILE1,DISP=SHR DSN=TEST.FILE2,DISP=SHR and the above DD name is overridden from the JCL as given below //procstepname.ABC DD DSN=TEST.FILE3 - Will the DD statement now have just TEST.FILE3 or it will be TEST.FILE3 and TEST.FILE2? Suppose if it is overridden twice like //procstepname.ABC DD DSN=TEST.FILE3 //procstepname.ABC DD DSN=TEST.FILE4 Will this give a JCL error? If not, what will be final output?

2 11737

If the proc stepname is excluded while overriding the COND, TIME, REGION and PARM parameters while calling the proc, will the override only apply to the first step in the proc or all the steps for all the above parameters?

2 11295

Is there a limit of 3273 DD statements for a JCL or for every EXEC step in a JCL?

2 23821

There are 2 steps in a JCL. If the first step abends due to system or user abend and the second step has COND specified as EVEN or ONLY, will this step still be executed inspite of the abend in the previous step?

2 8925

My JCL have five steps & I created new versions of GDG in first step through fourth step & fifth step I was refered Step one GDG version. My JCL got abend at 4th step and how I can restart my JCL Please let me know the answers. //STEP1 EXEC GDG1(+1) DISP=(NEW) //STEP2 EXEC GDG1(+2) DISP=(NEW) //STEP3 EXEC GDG1(+3) DISP=(NEW) //STEP4 EXEC GDG1(+4) DISP=(NEW) //STEP5 EXEC GDG1(+1) DISP=(OLD)

HCL, IBM, L&T, TCS,

11 51592

How many types of parameters are used in JCL and what are mandatory parameters of JOB statement.

IBM,

13 23684


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Un-Answered Questions { JCL }

What is the purpose of dd?

720


What is the function of the dd dcb keyword?

817


What do you understand by the term “keyword” with respect to jcl and what is the opposite of the term?

667


I have 60 steps in the JCL and want to Execute Only First from PROC by overriding in JCL ?

1341


What do we mean by 'Virtual storage' for a dataset and for a JOBSTEP ? What is the significance of the following statement for a programmer 'Virtual storage results in program addresses being independent of the addresses that actually exist in a computer' ?

1576






Give the syntax of job specifying jcl statement.

630


How can unused space allocation be returned to the system when a dataset is closed?

801


in ways data can be passed to a COBOL program from JCL?

659


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

737


I need exexution process for JCL programs

1843


What are the difference between jcl and jes?

1039


What are the parameter we cannot use in procedure?

631


Explain how can the attributes of one sms dataset be copied to another dataset?

700


How to execute 2nd and 4th steps among 5 steps in jcl proc?

743


how do you code a null statement?

767