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

JCL Interview Questions

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after submiting the jcl.how do you know that the job has been completed.

ACS,

4 9084

how do you resolve for soc7 error

ACS, iGate,

6 22057

I have a PDS and want to omit few rows of all members of a PDS. How to do it?

Accenture,

6 14275

I have a Symbolic Parameter which can have a value say 01 or 02 etc. Now consider i have another Symbolic parameters which is used to get 3 digit code of months (JAN, FEB, etc) but for that i need to check the first symbolic parameter's value and provide its corresponding month's name in the second symbolic parameter. Say IF sym1 = 01 then sym2='Jan' ENDIF etc... In JCL, IF condition is used for RC, ABEND purposes of a step etc. When i use Symbolic parameter in IF clause it is showing Error message. Is there a way to get the above result possible in JCL. If you could provide me with an example, i would understand it better.

3081

How can i execute 5th step without executing first 4 steps?

4 9660

what are the options in file-aid to edit vsam dataset and to compare data sets.

Ocwen,

2 10857

how can we pass external data to instream procedures

IBM, Infosys, Ocwen,

5 13523

What is difference between Return Code, user completion code, Abend code and reason Code?

IBM, Satyam, Wipro,

2 14531

If the COND parameter is specified in both the JOB and EXEC statements, which one will take precedence? If JOB takes priority and if all the conditions evaluate to false, then will the conditions on the EXEC step be evaluated next?

Wipro,

4 19042

Suppose a proc step has a DD statement like //ABC DD DSN=TEST.FILE1,DISP=SHR DSN=TEST.FILE2,DISP=SHR and the above DD name is overridden from the JCL as given below //procstepname.ABC DD DSN=TEST.FILE3 - Will the DD statement now have just TEST.FILE3 or it will be TEST.FILE3 and TEST.FILE2? Suppose if it is overridden twice like //procstepname.ABC DD DSN=TEST.FILE3 //procstepname.ABC DD DSN=TEST.FILE4 Will this give a JCL error? If not, what will be final output?

2 12783

If the proc stepname is excluded while overriding the COND, TIME, REGION and PARM parameters while calling the proc, will the override only apply to the first step in the proc or all the steps for all the above parameters?

2 12427

Is there a limit of 3273 DD statements for a JCL or for every EXEC step in a JCL?

2 25240

There are 2 steps in a JCL. If the first step abends due to system or user abend and the second step has COND specified as EVEN or ONLY, will this step still be executed inspite of the abend in the previous step?

2 10055

My JCL have five steps & I created new versions of GDG in first step through fourth step & fifth step I was refered Step one GDG version. My JCL got abend at 4th step and how I can restart my JCL Please let me know the answers. //STEP1 EXEC GDG1(+1) DISP=(NEW) //STEP2 EXEC GDG1(+2) DISP=(NEW) //STEP3 EXEC GDG1(+3) DISP=(NEW) //STEP4 EXEC GDG1(+4) DISP=(NEW) //STEP5 EXEC GDG1(+1) DISP=(OLD)

HCL, IBM, L&T, TCS,

11 57073

How many types of parameters are used in JCL and what are mandatory parameters of JOB statement.

IBM,

13 27192

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Un-Answered Questions { JCL }

Explain dd statement in jcl?

1064

What is notcat 2 - gs?

1425

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?

1262

Is it possible to define dd statements as you want?

1076

Where & How Do You Code Identifier In Jcl?

1227

a dd statement has 2 types of parameters. Name them?

1104

Give the syntax of job specifying jcl statement.

1091

what happens in execution stage in job processing?

1101

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

1088

State the uses of syspring, sysin, sort fields, sum fields and dummy.

1033

What statement can be used to send data to another mvs jes3 node?

1594

what is DSN parameter and DISP parameter is used for?

1109

Why block size is multiple of lrecl in jcl?

1361

Does jcl support automatic restart?

1195

what EXEC statement is and what is the syntax of EXEC statement used in JCL?

1122

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