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 12564

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

2 13633

What is RESTART? How is it invoked?

HSBC,

8 23519

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

3 9645

Explain concatenating datasets?

CTS,

2 9942

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

2 9295

What is MOD and when would you use it?

3 7450

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 8880

How do you designate a comment in JCL?

1 9364

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

2 6009

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

3 7666

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

3 9364

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

IBM,

3 28211

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

1 5858

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

2 9366

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

1131

Name what parameter directs the output of the job log dataset?

1049

what happens when COND is coded in JOB statement and when COND is coded inside EXEC statement?

1296

what are the types of abends that occur on job failure? And explain the possible causes of these

1611

Explain the hierarchy levels in jcl?

1677

what happens in execution stage in job processing?

1140

How do you create a temporary dataset?

1179

What is the difference between the positional and keyword parameters? Give examples.

1255

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

1261

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

2453

Explain how can return codes be tested before execution of a job step?

1327

Can we call instream to catalog and catalog to instream?

1143

How dummy is used in jcl?

1147

Can I send output of job to my remote device careerride123?

1131

Suppose I have five jobs to do. But I want to hold one?

1125

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