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 13315

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

3 19230

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

3 12104

What is the DD statement for a output file?

3 10161

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

2 7052

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

HCL,

3 32316

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

IBM,

2 22909

How do you restart a PROC from a particular step?

5 43254

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

CSC, CTS,

5 30975

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

IBM, Wipro,

5 39713

What are the kinds of job control statements?

3 8007

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

1 7450

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

1 5041

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

2 5844

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

2 9296

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Un-Answered Questions { JCL }

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

I need exexution process for JCL programs

2277

which utility is used to run a cobol-db2 program?

1401

how you can access an uncataloged dataset in a JCL?

1140

What is catelog procedure and how many catelog procedure to use in one job?

8694

how to run batch program without jcl?

11555

What is 'mounting' of volumes ? Is there anything that a programmer can do in it ? How to find currently mounted volume ?

2567

Explain the function of //cntl statement?

1172

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

1178

write a jcl to execute a job by 7:00 am on jan 20,1986?

1114

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

1137

What is the function of the steplib dd statement?

1203

how you will the direct the data to spool using sysout option?

2434

what sort card you will use to copy the data from one dataset to another dataset?

1229

I HAVE A VB BLOCK WHICH IS USED AS INPUT IN COBOL CONATINING SOME RECORDS CAN I CHANGE THE FILE FROM VB TO FB?

2563

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