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

JCL Interview Questions

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how to split a file

IBM,

4 18049

how can we override data definitions in jcl. can any one give detailed example

TCS,

3 15206

how to skip the steps in JCl

EDS,

2 9681

there are 10 steps in jcl how to execute the steps from step2 to step8 only

EDS,

6 14040

what is the cond=even only

EDS,

4 8872

how to concatenate datasets

EDS,

5 23907

what is instream data

EDS,

2 7230

can we give instream data in procedure

EDS,

6 19319

in jcl you are having JCLLIB and STEPLIB what happens

EDS, Wipro,

10 26162

I have a JCL with 10 steps, want to execute first 5 steps only, what are ways of doing it?is it possible to control through JOB card?

iGate,

10 37551

I have a JCL with 10 steps, want to execute first 5 steps only, what are ways of doing it?is it possible to control through JOB card?

iGate,

5 13055

In a JCL if previous steps return code is greater than 0 or 4 then the next step will not execute. But the job will be successfull with the maximum return code. How can we reset this maximum return code to '0' regardless of return codes of any steps?

4 27626

I found in one of the jcl, gdg version being mentioned as : abc.def.ghi(-0) Can anyone tell me how referring the version as (-0) is different from referring it as (0)

2 6524

I have two input SORTIN files and We need to create one SORTOUT file which contains data of both input files. What is the SortCard for this?. Suppose the length of the both files are different, then How we do it? Please reply ASAP

CSC,

4 33183

how to identify the file used in the JCL is an VSAM file. Just seeing the JCL code how can we track the file as VSAM file?

CSC,

6 17477

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WORKING-STORAGE SECTION. 01 GROSS-PAY. 05 BASIC-PAY PIC 9(5). 05 ALLOWENCES PIC 9(3). PROCEDURE DIVISION. MOVE 1000 TO BASIC-PAY. MOVE 250 TO ALLOWENCES. DISPLAY GROSS-PAY. STOP RUN. 77 W-A PIC 9(3)V99 VALUE 23.75 77 W-B PIC ZZ9V99 VLAUE 123.45 after the statement MOVE W-A TO W-B what will be W-B's value? a.123.75 b.b23.75 (where b indicates space) c.023.75 d.invalid move

1358

what happens in execution stage in job processing?

1140

what is use of disp parameter in dd statement?

1097

What is multithreading in jcl?

1463

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

8682

which utility is used a dummy utility?

1462

I want my job (careerride) to be executed in 1 minute and 2 seconds. How do I do that?

1229

What statement marks the beginning of an in-stream or cataloged procedure in jcl and assigns default values to parameters defined in the procedure?

1313

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

1288

How is the record format of an output dataset specified?

1158

why should SYSIN DD * statement should not be included inside a PROCedure snippet??? please answer this.. i need to know.

2453

How to override a dsn that is contained in a proc called by another proc? I need to do the override in the calling jcl?

1155

What is the significance of addrspc parameter in the exec statement?

1073

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

1395

what is use of dcb parameter in dd statement?

1297

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