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 9546

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

UST,

7 12951

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 10070

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

IBM, ups,

4 14371

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

2 6716

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 9219

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 3837

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

1 5892

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

2 6587

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

IBM,

6 12724

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 9553

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 5121

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

Perot Systems,

2 6337

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

Satyam,

6 19196

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 7778

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Un-Answered Questions { JCL }

Is automatic restart possible in jcl? If yes, how?

1175

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

1693

List the different jcl statements that are not permitted in the procedures?

1132

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

1177

What are the utility programs in jcl?

1221

What is job control language?

1152

Explain dfsort utility?

1407

Name a few IBM utility programs, and explain its function.

5039

Can an individual step be restricted from using all the jobs allowed cpu time?

1613

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

1250

Mention the types of job control statements?

1231

What is the purpose of disp parameter?

1180

Is condition checking possible in jcl?

1260

how JCL works?

1330

Can anybody tell what is tool used to generate the list of PROCS used in JCL to generate a PROCTREE

2511

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