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

JCL Interview Questions

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how can we pass parameters from JCL to cobol subprogram...my requirement is i should not get data from mainprogram but i need it from JCL directly

IBM, TCS,

5 24305

How to get the last but one duplicate record of the file using Sort?

Fidelity,

2 11059

How to find the number of duplicates in a file using Sort?

Fidelity,

4 27078

what is the COND=EVEN ? Can anyone give me an example to explain the usage.

2 8253

There is one QSAM is the VB file. i want to get the first characters in this file and change those characters from'abcd' to '1234' and creat a vasm file to put '1234' in it. how to do in only JCL. if it not QSAM, it's VASM and VB. how to do it.

IBM,

1 6021

How to point my proc to production dataset always though i keep jcllib order=development.dataset? Is it possible?

3 7098

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 to compare two VSAm files. In input VSAM file some fields are updating and the updated feilds are coming into the output file. now i need to compare these two files with respect to a perticular field. Please suggest a suitable JCL code me.

Cognizant, Wipro,

2 19941

One dataset is creating in the step1 with LRECL of 133 and the same dataset is used in the next step in DISP=SHR mode, but while scanning the JCL the following error is thrwon. Please verify the below JCL $/SEPP030.PROVIDER DD DSN=Z1225BT.F5750PG9.F5910PRV.QC#A6868 //ERRORRPT DD DSN=F5910&ST&IN..F5910EPP.ERRORRPT.P&CYCDATE, --ERRORRPT DD DSN=F5910PG.F5910EPP.ERRORRPT.P, // DISP=&DISNCD,UNIT=&DELQ, -- DISP= (NEW,CATLG,DELETE),UNIT=DELQ, // SPACE=(TRK, (30,15),RLSE), // DCB=&DCB2 -- DCB= (PPG.METMODEL,BLKSIZE=0,LRECL=133,RECFM=FB) $/SEPP030.ERRORRPT DD DSN=Z1225BT.F5910EPP.ERRORRPT.AOUTPUT //SEPP040 EXEC PGM=FILEAID,COND= (0002,EQ,SEPP030) //SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT=* //SYSLIST DD SYSOUT=* //DD01 DD DSN=SYSCMN.PROD.CCLIB (F5910EP1),DISP=SHR $/SEPP040.DD01 DD DSN=Z1225BT.TEST.CCLIB (F5910EP1) E1 - DSS20791E - DATA SET 'Z1225BT.F5910EPP.ERRORRPT.AOUTPUT' HAS AN LRECL OF 133 COULD NOT BE OPENED BECAUSE THE CODED LRECL WAS 80. // DD DSN=F5910&ST&IN..F5910EPP.ERRORRPT.P&CYCDATE, -- DD DSN=F5910PG.F5910EPP.ERRORRPT.P, // DISP=SHR $/ DD DSN=Z1225BT.F5910EPP.ERRORRPT.AOUTPUT please find the error code in the above mentioned lines and please suggest me about the error and the solution for that.

Cognizant,

3 12903

There are two steps in a JCl, the first one generates a report while the second step send an email saying the report has been generated, but the second steps should only be executed when the report file is non-empty. How can it be acheived. We may include steps in between.

IBM,

3 13057

IF we are calling a PROC from Jcl...This Proc have 3 steps in it and we want to execute only the second step using the JCL, How to do it?? Please give the answer ASAP:)

8 15639

Is it possiable to use a gdg in the INCLUDE statement in a SORT jcl? I am using this because I want to change the condition with out changing the jcl. Please provide with a sample code.

1 5625

Can we Execute a job without specifying Job Name in the Job Card?

2 15694

Suppose there are 2 Input files Infile-1 and Infile-2. Both the Files contain Employee Records. You need to compare both the files and Write the Common Records in third file named Outfile. How can we do this using File-Aid?

CGI, Verizon,

2760

How to skip first step of a job? Can we use COND on the first step?

iNautix,

3 29313

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how you can direct the data to spool using SYSOUT option?

1462

how can you check if a file is empty using jcl?

1423

How to find the UNIT and VOLUME of a (a) KEPT (b) UNCATALOGED and (c) CATALOGED dataset - using (i) JCL and using (ii) ISPF ?

2678

We can use PASS with permanent datasets also. THEN Which is the condition in which we may use PASS (instead of KEEP) with permanent data sets, while there is no need to specify UNIT and VOL for them like temporary data sets (in cas we use KEEP for permanent data sets) ?

2409

Is acct parameter mandatory?

1210

List the various advantages of using jcl language?

1454

How can values be passed from the job stream to an executable program?

1442

How is a type of file defined in the jcl that executes the cobol program?

1190

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?

10154

Explain about LMFREE�free data set from its association with data ID

1632

i want to store 20 digits . how will u do it in cobol ?

1420

Explain the jcl exec statement?

1146

Step 1 RC 4 Step 2 Step 3 I want to know the COND parameter which can be coded in step 2 or 3. Step 2 should be executed based on Step 1 RC and Step 3 should not be executed based on step 1's RC

4903

have in 100 records in a file i want to read first 3 records and skip next 3 records and agan i want to read 3 records and again i want to skip 3 records... run a loop from record one to 10 evaluate i/3 if comes even then skip else write to output file

1519

Can I share my data with other jobs? How?

1115

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