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Hi Please try to be to-the-point. 1) How to INCLUDE a JCL segment in a JOB ? (A Small example) 2) What is SPOOL and what is SPOOL FULL ? and how to direct the output of a Jobstep to SPOOL ?

IBM,

3 JCL 5920

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' ?

JCL 1579

What is 'mounting' of volumes ? Is there anything that a programmer can do in it ? How to find currently mounted volume ?

IBM,

JCL 1990

How to find the UNIT and VOLUME of a (a) KEPT (b) UNCATALOGED and (c) CATALOGED dataset - using (i) JCL and using (ii) ISPF ?

IBM,

JCL 2164

What is TimeStamp, What is TimeStamp error and What is the Abend Code for TimeStamp Error ?

IBM,

4 JCL 20567

Is there GOTO and SWITCH-CASE available in JCL ? Is IF-THEN-ELSE available in JCL also just like it is available for VSAM datasets under Model Commands category ?

IBM,

1 JCL 12582

What is a JCL Command statement ?

IBM,

1 JCL 6139

How many JOB statements a JCL can have ? If there are more than one JOB statements in a JCL, are they submitted in succession or in parallel ?

IBM, Tech Mahindra,

4 JCL 15451

If Name is NOT given for a JOB statement, then will it give error or installation will supply it for the JOB ?

IBM,

1 JCL 8365

How to release a JOB (from the input queue) held by TYPRUN = HOLD ? and how to see the installation default time after which a JOB will be automatically released ? How to see the list of currently HELD JOBS ?

IBM,

5 JCL 25167

How to print the Output to SPOOL using MSGCLASS and SYSOUT ?

IBM,

4 JCL 21968

Is Default for MSGCLASS = (1,1) ?

IBM,

2 JCL 5824

1) Is CLASS used for assigning Priority (as we say a job having class '6' will run before the job having class '5'? then what is the difference between CLASS and PRTY ? 2) In a same JCL, 2 JOB statements with different Classes and NO PRTY are submitted ? which will run first ? & with different classes and different PRTY also, which will run first now ?

IBM,

3 JCL 15560

Can we have a JOBSTEP without any EXEC ?

IBM,

6 JCL 17527

Is stepname is a MUST and should be unique also for each JOBSTEP ? or system can supply the stepname for a step which is not given a name by the programmer ?

IBM,

6 JCL 9133

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Question { IBM, 7992 }

Are all (i), (ii), (iii), (iv) of the below are VALID to
reference a temporary dataset ?

STEP2
DD1 DD DSN = &&TEMP

STEP3
DD2 DD (i) DSN = TEMP
(ii) DSN = *.TEMP
(iii) DSN = *.STEP1.DD1
(iv) DSN = *.STEP1.DD1.ONE

Answer

Just Read DSN = *.STEP1.DD1.TEMP in option (iv)

Is This Answer Correct ?

1 Yes

6 No

Question { IBM, 7981 }

Can a PROC CALL another PROC ? (in both Instream and
Cataloged cases) ?

Answer

THANKS,
And,
(i) Can an Instream PROC call other Instream PROC, as
Instream PROCs are also JCL Segments ?
(ii) Can an Instream PROC call a Cataloged PROC ?
(iii) Can a Cataloged PROC HAVE and USE an Inline PROC
inside it ?

Is This Answer Correct ?

0 Yes

1 No