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

JCL Interview Questions

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HOw to submit a job from other user id.? for exp some other job name like "t4622sdx".now i want to submit that job from my user id?(we don't know that location at all Just we know job name)

MSN Pharma, UST,

1 9357

I have a input file. Data like: ABCDEFGH.... i want out put file like AB BC CD DE....How can do this??

UST,

7 12491

My JCL has 4 steps that execute PROC’s P1, P2, P3 and P4 as shown below //P1 EXEC PROC=P1 //P2 EXEC PROC=P2 //P3 EXEC PROC=P3 //P4 EXEC PROC=P4 There are four steps S1, S2, S3 and S4 in each PROC’s (i.e. P1, P2, P3 and P4) I want to execute only step S2 of PROC P2 and no other steps or PROC’s. How do you achieve this?

IMS,

4 9689

how to purge 50 initiators continuously?? console commands??

IBM, ups,

4 13957

I have 255 procedures in a job, each procedure contain 2 steps.can we execute this job?

2 6460

ihave ten flatfile in that iwant to concatinate all the files except file 5,6 into output file by uing jcl? how to do this? give me detail yntax for tis?

IBM,

4 8854

I have a jcl which is using 2 data sets i want to override those data sets. how can i override the files within the JCL. Give me the syntax. Make sure that it is not calling any Proc.

1 3665

Can we able insert data into a PS file Using IEBUPDTE utility??? If Yes can anyone describe it please..

1 5724

proc1,proc2,up to proc5 is there if i want to call proc1 and proc5how can u write the code

2 6317

I had 100 steps in jcl i want to execute first 10 steps only?

IBM,

6 12252

What will happen when we try to pass data from JCL to COBOL using PARM parameter without declaring the length field in Linkage Section?

IBM,

2 9327

How system will identify whether user wants to create PS or PDS? If answer is SPACE parameter then why we need to pass ps or po as dataset organisation while creation

1 4950

01 A. 10 B pic X(10). move spaces to A. move spaces to B. output in A & B

Perot Systems,

2 6119

In JCL..for TIME Parameter was specified both JOB & STEP..which one is overrides

Satyam,

6 18437

i have job card like this //job ***** //step1 exec pgm=iebgener //sysut1 dd dsn=main.sss,disp=shr // dd dsn=main1.sss,disp=shr // dd dsn=main2.sss,disp=shr //sysut2 dd dsn=out1.mmm ,disp=(new,catlg,delete) dcb=( ) // sysin dd * like this what i have to do to skip dsn=main1.sss please giveme answer asap

IBM, TetraSoft,

2 7522

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when does a dataset go uncataloged?

1258

what EXEC statement is and what is the syntax of EXEC statement used in JCL?

1116

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

1171

How would you understand error(execution phase)?

1176

write a jcl to execute a job by 7:00 am on jan 20,1986?

1074

What do we mean by 'Virtual storage' for a dataset and for a JOBSTEP ? What is the significance of the following statement for a programmer 'Virtual storage results in program addresses being independent of the addresses that actually exist in a computer' ?

1983

How jcl work to handle various input output file operations?

1099

How dummy is used in jcl?

1088

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

1081

What is the function of the steplib dd statement?

1142

What is the maximum length of a single line of jcl?

1294

What is job control language?

1038

What are the rules employed while naming the steps in a job?

1098

Explain how can values be passed from the job stream to an executable program?

1139

what are JCLLIB and STEPLIB in JCL?

1116

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