JCL Interview Questions
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HOW TO CONVERT VARIABLE BLOCK TO FIXED BLOCK ?

IBM,

1 31170

What is the difference b/w the CLASS,TIME,PRTY in jcl job card.

Syntel,

4 18644

i have 5 steps to execute in that i want to skip 3nd step and start execute from forth step how can u do this.

Syntel,

7 8721

How to code these statements in JCL: CLEANUP INITIAL(NO) RESTART(NO) DYNALLOC(NO) job definition..?

1801

i need some shortcuts and tso commands can any on ehelp me in these ?

1 5052

WHAT IS DUMMY IN JCL? HOW TO USE IT? CAN ANYBODY SEND PROGRAM ON THIS?

3 6819

once we submitted the job to the operating system, how can we cancel the job before execution?

2 5137

suppose i have job it contains 10 steps after exicution of job failuer at 3 and 7 th steps i want exicute step 3 and step 7 only how we specify condition ?

5 7649

is there any possibilities for sumbitting more than one job in single jcl? if yes...based on which thing they will execute..(priority,class,time,written order..?)

HSBC,

3 9292

I am getting the file from Unix to Mainframes for every 15 minutes. The mainframe job get abended with bad records coming from unix. I recovered that by deleting the bad data. I need permenant solution how to fix the issue? The record is getting characters in in first 9 positions which it should not. Please provide me the solution how to skip the records if it finds the charcters in the first 9 positions. K

3 5946

how to increase the space of a dataset in instream procedure.

HCL,

1 7380

what happens when time=0 is given in jcl code. what happens when blksize=0 is given in jcl code. what is symbolic and overriding parameters and a example program.

HCL,

6 11909

I have a dataset with record length 40 in production, due to some requirements it was changed to 80. Then how can we know the jobs which are effected by this change and how can we resolve it.

iGate,

3 7715

1)what is compilation jcl for cobol program but it is calling another program 2)what is compilation jcl for cobol program but it is calling another program(in this, main program is pure cobol but sub program is cobol+db2 program anyone please answer me for above questions. it's very urgent

1 3670

1)what is compilation jcl for cobol program but it is calling another program 2)what is compilation jcl for cobol program but it is calling another program(in this, main program is pure cobol but sub program is cobol+db2 program.can anyone please answer me for above questions. it's very urgent

Mind Tree,

4 12045


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Un-Answered Questions { JCL }

Explain how can return codes be tested before execution of a job step?

830


How to submit jcl through a cobol program?

679


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

668


Does jcl support automatic restart?

761


List the different components of jcl statement?

691






What are the utility programs in jcl?

648


What is concatenating?

635


What are the 4 fields in dd statement?

744


What is the purpose of dd?

728


I have a cobol db2 program(PGM A) where other program (PGM B) will call this program and passes some 50 fields data to PGM A. PGM A has some layout in which it receives the data from PGM B. And this layout has been copied in the linkage section pf PGM A. After getting the data, PGM A writes the data in a flat file in the same layout which it receives from PGM B. PGM B is a simple COBOL pgm. Please provide a JCL to run these programs.

1732


Mainframes gets a text file that contains the name of the file. Now using JCL i want to locate that file name in the mainframe system and perform further processing. Please tell how to proceed

1969


Explain the function of //cntl statement?

659


Why block size is multiple of lrecl in jcl?

913


what is the resolution for sb37 error

7712


How do you overcome this limitation ?

698