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 9243

how do you resolve for soc7 error

ACS, iGate,

6 22269

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

Accenture,

6 14473

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.

3134

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

4 9852

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

Ocwen,

2 10989

how can we pass external data to instream procedures

IBM, Infosys, Ocwen,

5 13694

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

IBM, Satyam, Wipro,

2 14630

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 19212

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 12864

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 12551

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

2 25364

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 10149

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 57470

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

IBM,

13 27598

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What are the difference between jcl and jes?

1608

what is use of dsn parameter in dd statement?

1159

what is SOC4 error?

1218

1) SORT FIELDS=(20,4,CH,D,10,3,CH,D) OUTREC FIELDS=(7:20,4,C' FUTURE ',20,2,10,3,1Z,1,9,13,7, 24,57,TRAN=LTOU,6X'FF') This example illustrates how a fixed-length input data set can be sorted and reformatted for output. The SORTIN LRECL is 80 bytes. The reformatted output records are fixed length with a record size of 103 bytes. SOLRF (the IBM-supplied default) is in effect, so unless the SORTOUT LRECL is specified or available, it will automatically be set to the reformatted record length of 103. in the above example i have some doubts that a) sort fields=(20,4,CH,D,10,3,CH,D) -what exactly it does and this fields related to output record fields or input record fields b)outrec used to refprmat the records after sorting that means could please reply me as soon as possible Thanks. Venkat

7802

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

1175

Explain the purpose of dd dummy statement?

1212

Explain how can an in-stream dataset be terminated?

1322

Differentiate between addressing mode and run mode.

1074

What is the use of symbol // in jcl?

1477

What do you understand by the term job time – out and how can you overcome that?

1024

What are the utility programs in jcl?

1157

Must tape dataset definitions include vol=ser specifications?

1720

what happens in conversion stage in job processing?

1220

//S10 EXEC PGM=ICETOOL //TOOLMSG DD SYSOUT=* //DFSMSG DD SYSOUT=* //CON DD DSN=VAR.INPUT1,DISP=SHR // DD DSN=VAR.INPUT2,DISP=SHR //OUT DD DSN=VAR.OUTPUT,DISP=(NEW,CATLG,DELETE), // SPACE=(CYL,(5,5)),UNIT=SYSDA //TOOLIN DD * * Splice the needed data from the two VB files together SPLICE FROM(CON) TO(OUT) ON(5,5,CH) WITHALL - WITH(12,5) WITH(22,20) VLENMAX /*

1457

how you can access an uncataloged dataset in a JCL?

1133

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