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

JCL Interview Questions

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What is a PROC? What is the difference between an instream and a catalogued PROC?

2 12577

What is the difference between a symbolic and an override in executing a PROC?

2 13655

What is RESTART? How is it invoked?

HSBC,

8 23567

What is a GDG? How is it referenced? How is it defined? What is a MODELDSCB?

3 9665

Explain concatenating datasets?

CTS,

2 9966

What is the difference between specifying DISP=OLD and DISP=SHR for a dataset?

2 9307

What is MOD and when would you use it?

3 7465

What are the keywords associated with DCB? How can you specify DCB information? What is the OS precedence for obtaining that DCB information, ie. where does the system look for it first?

2 8897

How do you designate a comment in JCL?

1 9388

What is the meaning of the EXEC statement keyword, COND? What is its syntax?

2 6021

What is the improvement to COND= in the latest version of MVS?

3 7690

What is the purpose of the PARM keyword in the EXEC statement?

3 9392

What is the purpose and meaning of the REGION keyword and what JCL statement is it associated with?

IBM,

3 28248

What is the purpose and meaning of the TIME keyword and what JCL statement is it associated with?

1 5869

What is the meaning of data definition name (ddname) and dataset name (dsname) in the DD statement?

2 9394

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how JCL works?

1274

Are there any set of rules for the names of the steps used in a job?

1138

How do you run a COBOL batch program from a JCL? How do you run a COBOL/DB2 program?

1264

Explain about ISPF/TSO Commands

1956

Mention the types of job control statements?

1176

How to override a dsn that is contained in a proc called by another proc? I need to do the override in the calling jcl?

1165

//S10 EXEC PGM=ICETOOL //TOOLMSG DD SYSOUT=* //DFSMSG DD SYSOUT=* //CON DD DSN=VAR.INPUT1,DISP=SHR // DD DSN=VAR.INPUT2,DISP=SHR //OUT DD DSN=VAR.OUTPUT,DISP=(NEW,CATLG,DELETE), // SPACE=(CYL,(5,5)),UNIT=SYSDA //TOOLIN DD * * Splice the needed data from the two VB files together SPLICE FROM(CON) TO(OUT) ON(5,5,CH) WITHALL - WITH(12,5) WITH(22,20) VLENMAX /*

1466

Explain the function of job statement in jcl?

1214

Suppose I have a program in cobol name ”careerride” and want to execute the program by jcl. Specify the process?

1122

write a jcl to execute a job by 7:00 am on jan 20,1986?

1116

What is the use of symbol // in jcl?

1491

How jcl work to handle various input output file operations?

1170

How can the submitting users racf authority be overridden in a job stream?

1271

what is use of dsn parameter in dd statement?

1166

What does it mean by Restart and Checkpoint in JCL ? How are checkpoints being taken and what is their usage ? How to use Checkpoint macro on a JOBSTEP ?

9755

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