JCL Interview Questions
Questions Answers Views Company eMail

How do you submit JCL via a Cobol program?

IBM,

4 11142

Write a jcl to execute a job by 7 a.m on Jan 20,1986 ?

Maples, Patni, TCS,

5 17460

What is the max blocksize for a Tape file?

2 11734

How do you check the syntax of a JCL without running it?

17 67501

Can you code instream data in a PROC ?

10 25898

What does IEBGENER do?

BirlaSoft,

10 39568

What is STEPLIB, JOBLIB? What is it used for?

2 8114

How do you send the output of a COBOL program to a member of a PDS?

7 16666

I have multiple jobs ( JCLs with several JOB cards ) in a member. What happens if I submit it?

16 29610

I have a COBOL program that Accepts some input data. How do you code the JCL statement for this? ( How do you code instream data in a JCL? )

9 21175

There are a set of 10 files and a customer will be selecting random no of files(i.e they may be more than 2, may not be in the order).Sometimes he might just select one file or sometimes no files at all.How do you code a JCL for this? Is it possible to code just JCL alone for this problem?

Infosys,

9 15376

List some valid operation codes in JCL

3 9952

How can I write the joblog in the spool on normal end of a job step and direct the joblog to a dataset only if the step abends?

2 7596

//step#3 exec pgm = hkbc762 what is wrong with the syntax?

3 7510

Name the system library from which modules are retrieved at execution

3 10254


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Is automatic restart possible in jcl?

722


What is the function of //jcllib statement?

785


We can use PASS with permanent datasets also. THEN Which is the condition in which we may use PASS (instead of KEEP) with permanent data sets, while there is no need to specify UNIT and VOL for them like temporary data sets (in cas we use KEEP for permanent data sets) ?

1736


What do you understand by the term notcat 2 – gs?

730


What is use of restart and how to use it?

752






when can a job time-out occur? How to overcome that?

736


How to pass the parameter in parm using linkage section ? (syntax)?

636


What is timing concept in mainframe?

1642


How to do automated restart when a job abend?

776


what happens when COND is coded in JOB statement and when COND is coded inside EXEC statement?

765


What is the purpose of dd * statement in jcl?

784


have in 100 records in a file i want to read first 3 records and skip next 3 records and agan i want to read 3 records and again i want to skip 3 records... run a loop from record one to 10 evaluate i/3 if comes even then skip else write to output file

910


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

751


What do you understand by jcl?

615


//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 /*

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