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

2 11076

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

2 12354

What is RESTART? How is it invoked?

HSBC,

8 21073

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

3 8021

Explain concatenating datasets?

CTS,

2 8682

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

2 7914

What is MOD and when would you use it?

3 6118

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 7736

How do you designate a comment in JCL?

1 8690

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

2 5020

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

3 6311

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

3 8095

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

IBM,

3 26658

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

1 4981

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

2 8183


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What is the difference between run mode and addressing mode?

625


Explain how can a jobs execution priority be modified?

729


what is DSN in JCL and what are the parameters to declare the DSN?

710


Is it possible to define dd statements as you want?

639


How to run cobol program using jcl?

641






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

657


What do you understand by jcl?

621


What is the function of the dd avgrec keyword in sms datasets?

824


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?

705


How can a jobs execution priority be modified?

788


Explain in DD statement what is the use of DCB parameter?

644


Explain the function of dd name parameter with a 2 part structure; audit.report?

884


Is their any limit for data sets?

693


Is automatic restart possible in jcl?

722


how JCL works?

787