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 36951

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

Xansa,

7 68889

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 9182

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 18245

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 12258

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 33686

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

Wipro,

3 14936

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 8138

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 31688

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

3 9275

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

CTS,

5 15512

What are the default system and catalog libraries in JCL?

Infosys,

2 12072

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 121797

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

ACS, Keane India Ltd,

4 9848

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 26494

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Un-Answered Questions { JCL }

How to compare two files in SYNCSORT and on the mismatch record should be deleted from second file.

5540

Define concatenating?

1101

If a (+1) generation dataset is created in the first step of a job, how can it be referenced in later steps of the same job for input?

1308

Name the statement which can be used to send data to another mvs jes3 node?

1178

I want my job (careerride) to be executed in 1 minute and 2 seconds. How do I do that?

1236

How does jcl specify the job to the operating system?

1245

what is DD statement is used in JCL?

1198

What is the syntax of JCL statement?

1235

What is the function of the steplib dd statement?

1202

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

2564

Is acct parameter mandatory?

1210

Is their any limit for data sets?

1188

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

1509

What is the function of dd disp parameter?

1135

How can unused space allocation be returned to the system when a dataset is closed?

1496

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