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

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What is concatenating?

1075

What is the function of //jcllib statement?

1316

What statement marks the beginning of a job step; assigns a name to the step; identifies the program or catalogued or in-stream procedure to be executed in the step?

1100

Why block size is multiple of lrecl in jcl?

1406

What is the function of the steplib dd statement?

1194

How can a stopped job be started again?

1189

What statement marks the beginning of an in-stream or cataloged procedure in jcl and assigns default values to parameters defined in the procedure?

1313

If a (+1) generation dataset is created in the first step of a job, how can it be referenced in later steps of the same job for input?

1308

What is the function of a dd statement?

1202

Must tape dataset definitions include vol=ser specifications?

1720

Which dd parameters are required?

1182

How is the record format of an output dataset specified?

1158

How can a jobs execution priority be modified?

1290

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

1351

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

1638

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

1125

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

1190

What is job control language?

1086

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

1112

In job processing, what happens in execution stage?

1197

How to execute 2nd and 4th steps among 5 steps in jcl proc?

1307

Explain the function of //cntl statement?

1164

Explain the purpose of dd * statement in jcl?

1064

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?

1289

What does a disposition of (new,catlg,keep) for a dsn mean?

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Can I share my data with other jobs? How?

1112

For what purpose steplib and joblib are used ?

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how do you access an uncataloged dataset in a jcl?

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