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

JCL Interview Questions

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Is it possible to code instream data in a PROC?

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When you specify multiple datasets in a JOBLIB or STEPLIB, what factor determines the order?

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I have a COBOL program that ACCEPTs some input data. How do you code the JCL statement for this?

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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 ?

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How do you run a COBOL batch program from a JCL? How do you run a COBOL/DB2 program?

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How do you overcome this limitation ?

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What is NOTCAT ?

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What happens if both JOBLIB & STEPLIB is specified ?

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What does a disposition of (MOD,DELETE,DELETE) mean ?

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How jcl is used for testing batch programs?

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Can we use DISP=SHR in output file in JCL

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How to do automated restart when a job abend?

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In job processing, what happens in execution stage?

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In job processing, what happens in conversion stage?

1197

How do you access an uncatalogued dataset in a jcl?

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how to run batch program without jcl?

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What is multithreading in jcl?

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

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Can we call instream to catalog and catalog to instream?

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How do you overcome this limitation ?

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Explain how can the disposition of sysout datasets be set for an entire jobstream?

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What statement can be used to send data to another mvs jes3 node?

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how would you create a temporary dataset? And where will you use them?

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In job processing, what happens in conversion stage?

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how can you check if a file is empty using jcl?

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What are the difference between jcl and jes?

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What dd statement is used to supply the name of a dataset?

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How to find the UNIT and VOLUME of a (a) KEPT (b) UNCATALOGED and (c) CATALOGED dataset - using (i) JCL and using (ii) ISPF ?

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

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