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 9951

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 7453

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 8887

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 7676

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 5863

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

2 9382

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What is the function of //jcllib statement?

1318

whats the diff bw the evaluate also and and?

2344

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

1190

How to submit jcl through a cobol program?

1150

Are there any set of rules for the names of the steps used in a job?

1136

The disp in the JCL is MOD and the program opens the file in OUTPUT mode. What happens ? The disp in the JCL is SHR and the pgm opens the file in EXTEND mode. What happens ?

1546

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

1420

Can we call instream to catalog and catalog to instream?

1145

What do you understand by the term “keyword” with respect to jcl and what is the opposite of the term?

1143

Explain the function of dd disp parameter?

1121

What are the difference between jcl and jes?

1612

What is concatenating?

1082

A chkpt is the parameter coded for multi-volume qsam datasets in a dd statement. When a chkpt is coded as chkpt=eov, a checkpoint is written to the dataset specified in the sysckeov statement at the end of each volume of the input/output multi-volume dataset. State whether true or false?

1294

Differentiate between the joblib and the steplib statements?

1439

How jcl is used for testing batch programs?

1282

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