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

JCL Interview Questions

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What is a PROC? What is the difference between an instream and a catalogued PROC?

2 12571

What is the difference between a symbolic and an override in executing a PROC?

2 13643

What is RESTART? How is it invoked?

HSBC,

8 23550

What is a GDG? How is it referenced? How is it defined? What is a MODELDSCB?

3 9656

Explain concatenating datasets?

CTS,

2 9952

What is the difference between specifying DISP=OLD and DISP=SHR for a dataset?

2 9299

What is MOD and when would you use it?

3 7455

What are the keywords associated with DCB? How can you specify DCB information? What is the OS precedence for obtaining that DCB information, ie. where does the system look for it first?

2 8888

How do you designate a comment in JCL?

1 9377

What is the meaning of the EXEC statement keyword, COND? What is its syntax?

2 6012

What is the improvement to COND= in the latest version of MVS?

3 7677

What is the purpose of the PARM keyword in the EXEC statement?

3 9385

What is the purpose and meaning of the REGION keyword and what JCL statement is it associated with?

IBM,

3 28236

What is the purpose and meaning of the TIME keyword and what JCL statement is it associated with?

1 5864

What is the meaning of data definition name (ddname) and dataset name (dsname) in the DD statement?

2 9383

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What is the use of disp parameter?

1141

Explain the hierarchy levels in jcl?

1682

What are the parameter we cannot use in procedure? How many instream we can write in single jcl?

1076

what is a jcl?

1139

How do you overcome this limitation ?

1206

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

1509

Many jcl statements contain specific values designed to direct and control the execution of the statement. What are these fields called?

1227

How to run cobol program using jcl?

1231

I have mainpgm(abc) this is the only cobol pgm(non-db2).And this pgm calling subpgm name "acd" this also only cobol(non- Db)and this pgm calling some other subpgm this pgm has cobol-db2 pgm. 1) IF you calling static mode how to run and how to compile? 2) IF you calling dynamic mode how to run and how to compile? plz suggestion me.

2618

a dd statement has 2 types of parameters. Name them?

1135

What dd statement is used to supply the name of a dataset?

1386

what is “Cond= even” and “Cond=only”?

1313

what operation is performed by job statement?

1128

what is the purpose of coding notify parameter in job statement?

1163

How jcl is used for testing batch programs?

1282

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