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

JCL Interview Questions

Questions Answers Views Company eMail

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

GE, Xansa,

9 36943

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

Xansa,

7 68869

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 9169

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 18241

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 12254

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 33666

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

Wipro,

3 14928

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 8135

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 31673

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

3 9274

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

CTS,

5 15506

What are the default system and catalog libraries in JCL?

Infosys,

2 12071

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 121777

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

ACS, Keane India Ltd,

4 9844

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 26489

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Un-Answered Questions { JCL }

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) ?

2407

How does jcl act on code(if you take a cobol program)?

1282

Explain dfsort utility?

1340

Is it possible to left uncode disp? If yes, how?

1184

When you specify multiple datasets in a JOBLIB or STEPLIB, what factor determines the order?

1460

Why include statement is used in a jcl?

1177

I have a job called careerride and some steps in it as step1,step2. But I want to execute step2 before step1 ? How do I do that?

1396

what is a jcl?

1132

What is the purpose of disp parameter?

1118

What are the rules employed while naming the steps in a job?

1139

What is NOTCAT ?

1328

What is the function of the dd dcb keyword?

1337

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.

2356

Explain the function of //jcllib statement?

1208

Explain the function of dd name parameter with a 2 part structure; audit.report?

1456

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