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

JCL Interview Questions

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What does a disposition of (NEW,CATLG,KEEP) mean?

Cap Gemini,

1 13305

How do you access a file that had a disposition of KEEP?

3 19212

MOD, DELETE; What does a disposition of (,DELETE) mean ?

3 12088

What is the DD statement for a output file?

3 10141

What do you do if you do not want to keep all the space allocated to a dataset?

2 7042

What is DISP= (NEW,PASS,DELETE)?

HCL,

3 32298

How do you create a temporary dataset? Where will you use them?

IBM,

2 22895

How do you restart a PROC from a particular step?

5 43226

How do you skip a particular step in a proc/JOB?

CSC, CTS,

5 30957

A PROC has five steps. Step 3 has a condition code. How can you override/nullify this condition code?

IBM, Wipro,

5 39689

What are the kinds of job control statements?

3 7997

What is the meaning of keyword in JCL? What is its opposite?

1 7445

Describe the JOB statement, its meaning, syntax and significant keywords?

1 5035

Describe the EXEC statement, its meaning, syntax and keywords?

2 5833

Describe the DD statement, its meaning, syntax and keywords?

2 9288

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what is use of space parameter in dd statement?

1272

what is the use of IEBGENER utility?

1167

What are the 2 types of parameters in dd statement?

1155

Is it possible to define dd statements as you want?

1111

Is condition checking possible in jcl? If yes, how?

1288

A chkpt is the parameter coded for multi-volume qsam datasets in a dd statement. When a chkpt is coded as chkpt=eov, a checkpoint is written to the dataset specified in the sysckeov statement at the end of each volume of the input/output multi-volume dataset. State whether true or false?

1289

What do you understand by the term notcat 2 – gs?

1237

which parameter is used to check the syntax of a jcl without executing it?

1359

IIN APITUDE THEY GAVE ONLY 10 QUESTIONS.. THEY ARE SIMPLE ONE FROM NUMBER SERIES,BOATS,TIME & DISTANCE,PROFIT &LOSS,FIND OUT THE NUMBER ? 9 25 4 36 81 64 49 AND surveillance SPELLINGS E.T.C

2180

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

What is NOTCAT ?

1322

What parameter of the job statement is used to limit the cpu time consumed by the job?

1273

Explain the hierarchy levels in jcl?

1677

List the various advantages of using jcl language?

1451

What are the 4 fields in dd statement?

1263

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