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

JCL Interview Questions

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What statement marks the end of an in-stream or catalogued procedure?

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What parameters can be used to limit the number of records written to a sysout dataset?

1 1907

How can the submitting users racf authority be overridden in a job stream?

1355

What do you understand by the term job time – out and how can you overcome that?

1089

What is the motivation behind coding class parameter in job statement?

1235

List the different components of jcl statement?

1151

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

1131

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

1214

What do you understand by jcl?

1119

Describe the various parameters utilized in the creation of a gdg?

1219

What methodology can be adapted to transfer data to a program that is coded using the exec statement?

1275

What do you understand by the term notcat 2 – gs?

1298

What do you understand by the term “keyword” with respect to jcl and what is the opposite of the term?

1194

What do you understand by the terms: joblib and steplib?

1260

What is the difference between run mode and addressing mode?

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Un-Answered Questions { JCL }

What is 'mounting' of volumes ? Is there anything that a programmer can do in it ? How to find currently mounted volume ?

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We can use PASS with permanent datasets also. THEN Which is the condition in which we may use PASS (instead of KEEP) with permanent data sets, while there is no need to specify UNIT and VOL for them like temporary data sets (in cas we use KEEP for permanent data sets) ?

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What are some jcl statements that are not allowed in procedures?

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

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what is the JCL statement consists of?

1263

List in order the hierarchical levels of jcl?

1154

I want my job (careerride) to be executed in 1 minute and 2 seconds. How do I do that?

1289

Why include statement is used in a jcl?

1240

how can a gdg base be created in a jcl. What is the difference between empty and scratch parameter while defining/altering gdg base?

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when can a job time-out occur? How to overcome that?

1353

what operation is performed by job statement?

1181

what is a jcl?

1181

Why block size is multiple of lrecl in jcl?

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Is their any limit for data sets?

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Explain the purpose of dd dummy statement?

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