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

JCL Interview Questions

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What is SORT ? How do we eliminate duplicate records ? How do I select some records using SORT ?

GE, Xansa,

9 36662

what is XSUM in some fields= none, xsum ??

Xansa,

7 68626

We are aware of eliminating the duplicate records from outyput fiel using sort utility. Can we get the duplicate records in to another file in the Same sort utility?

2 9047

Can we find specific member without knowing the name of PDS or can we search a member to which PDS it belongs to? if so how?

6 18031

i have five step in jcl.my forth step is gdg.gdg was abend.when will job complete,hoe to handle you

L&T, Wipro,

3 12114

In one of intervie, my interviwer asked, I have a file which contains 4 records I would like to split the 4 different outputs for each record how to do?

Cap Gemini, Cognizant, JPMorgan Chase, TCS, Xansa,

14 33205

If job is submitted with typerun = hold then how can we submit the same job?

Wipro,

3 14756

THERE IS ONE STEP AS BELOW: //STEPJS060 EXEC PGM=XYX, COND=((200,EQ,JS010),(0,NE,JS020.C),EVEN) COULD ANY ONE EXPLAIN HOW COND PARAMETER WORKS HERE? I AM CONFUSED BECOZ OF "EVEN".

2 8029

There are 5 steps in a Job. How to bypass the first step by making use of only COND Parameter and not using any Restart and IF/THEN/ELSE parameter?

IBM,

11 31203

What are isolation levels? Where do we need to specify them in compiling JCL?

3 9126

TIME parameter in JOB statement or EXEC statement specifies What type of time (CPU time or execution time)?

CTS,

5 15282

What are the default system and catalog libraries in JCL?

Infosys,

2 11968

Wrete a JCL to compare two files and mached records move to onc file & un mached rows wants to another file?

CGI, DSRC, IBM,

13 121323

hi guys what r the diff types of procs in jcl? bye ramya

ACS, Keane India Ltd,

4 9664

i have 1000 records in input file and i want to sort it and the first 200 records to be placed in output file. how to do that??

L&T,

14 26068

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Un-Answered Questions { JCL }

by using cond parameter maximum 8 cond can be coded in single cond means ?explain

1401

How does jcl act on a cobol code?

1116

define cond parameter in jcl?

1225

how do you code a null statement?

1284

what is the purpose of coding notify parameter in job statement?

1104

What is the function of //jcllib statement?

1277

My Question is 1. How to cound no. of records in JCL. Please explain with an example. 2. How to execute only odd steps in JCL? I know EDIT TYPE = Inculde, Step Name = 1,3,5 and COND code for all even step. Anyone knows other than this.

2410

What is the function of the dd dcb keyword?

1281

how JCL works?

1216

Explain the function of the dd dcb keyword?

1196

In sms datasets, what is the function of the dd avgrec keyword?

1045

how can the same proc be re-used and called by many jobs?

1445

In sms datasets, what is the function of the dd mgmtclas keyword?

1345

How do you overcome this limitation ?

1163

Why block size is multiple of lrecl in jcl?

1360

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