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

JCL Interview Questions

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What are the maximum and minimum sizes of any CONTROL AREA (VSAM datasets) ?

Patni,

2 13143

How to get cursor position from system in CICS environment ?

8 40250

How many parameters are there to a DISP statement and what are their uses ?

3 7676

What is the difference between specifying DISP=OLD and DISP=SHR for a dataset?

CitiGroup,

5 33352

What does SYSIN * indicate?

2 8143

What u mean by include statement in JCL ?

3 28976

The maximum number of in-stream procedure you can code in any JCL is ?

5 15478

What is a COND parameter in JCL?

TCS,

10 63829

How many types of libraries are there in JCL ?

IBM,

2 11395

What you mean by skeleton JCl?

2 14733

How do you submit a JCL under CICS environment ?

Wipro,

5 15787

How to change default PROCLIB?

1 13813

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 program opens the file in EXTEND mode. What happens ?

3 13577

How to execute a set of JCL statements from a COBOL program ?

6 16113

What are three major types of JCL statements? What are their functions?

1 9599

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can any one plzzzzzz tell the jcl code for creating ps using idcams

11545

Explain the function of dd name parameter with a 2 part structure; audit.report?

1404

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

1283

What is the use of symbol // in jcl?

1396

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?

1060

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

4903

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

1579

Explain the purpose of the dd keylen parameter?

1105

What are the parameter we cannot use in procedure? How many instream we can write in single jcl?

1010

what happens in conversion stage in job processing?

1173

Which statement is used to identify the private libraries in job?

1134

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

1178

What does it mean by Restart and Checkpoint in JCL ? How are checkpoints being taken and what is their usage ? How to use Checkpoint macro on a JOBSTEP ?

9696

what is the use of IEBGENER utility?

1117

What is the function of a dd statement?

1149

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