JCL Interview Questions
Questions Answers Views Company eMail

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

Cap Gemini,

1 12166

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

3 17476

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

3 10680

What is the DD statement for a output file?

3 8622

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

2 5919

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

HCL,

3 30183

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

IBM,

2 21258

How do you restart a PROC from a particular step?

5 40886

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

CSC, CTS,

5 28581

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

IBM, Wipro,

5 36874

What are the kinds of job control statements?

3 6739

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

1 6594

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

1 4205

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

2 4806

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

2 8098


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Un-Answered Questions { JCL }

when does a dataset go uncataloged?

822


I had Records in file Like this Company Code IBM 2 IBM 1 IBM 4 WIPRO 3 WIPRO 2 WIPRO 9 TCS 4 TCS 6 TCS 3 i want the record of every company with highest code How can i do that?

8649


what is “Cond= even” and “Cond=only”?

733


What is the job entry system used in your project? based on what criteria the sequence of jobs are picked if priority is not mentioned in the job card?

1799


Explain the function of job statement in jcl?

635






what is SOC4 error?

729


what disp parameter we mention for creation of temporary dataset so that we can use it in later steps?

642


When output dataset space is required, what quantity categories are used?

813


What are steplib and joblib?

710


which utility is used to sort a file in jcl?

739


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

898


Explain the purpose of dd * statement in jcl?

628


Explain how can the submitting users racf authority be overridden in a job stream?

666


How is the record format of an output dataset specified?

734


Define concatenating?

654