JCL Interview Questions
Questions Answers Views Company eMail

What is a GDG

IBM,

4 16023

What is a Generation Data Group (GDG)?

2 8969

How is a GDG base created?

5 24218

What is model dataset label(Model DSCB)?

1 22632

How are GDGs concatenated?

1 13406

How is a new GDG coded?

2 8906

When should DISP=MOD is used?

TCS,

6 44011

How is a dataset passed from one step to another?

DELL,

2 14386

How are datasets concatenated?

CitiGroup,

3 12395

What is the difference between the JOBLIB and the STEPLIB statements?

3 35871

Name some of the JCL statements that are not allowed in procs.?

1 14257

What is primary allocation for a dataset?

4 12969

What is the difference between primary and secondary allocations for a dataset?

8 45002

How many extents are possible for a sequential file ? For a VSAM file ?

3 16871

What does a disposition of (NEW,CATLG,DELETE) mean?

3 17577


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

577


have in 100 records in a file i want to read first 3 records and skip next 3 records and agan i want to read 3 records and again i want to skip 3 records... run a loop from record one to 10 evaluate i/3 if comes even then skip else write to output file

914


What parameter of the job statement is used to limit the cpu time consumed by the job?

832


What is the function of the dd mgmtclas keyword in sms datasets?

728


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 ?

9202






What is the purpose of dd * statement in jcl?

791


Explain about LMQUERY�give a dialog information about a data set

894


what is DSN in JCL and what are the parameters to declare the DSN?

710


What is NOTCAT ?

732


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

806


What are the parameters that are used in creating a gdg?

727


I have a job called careerride and some steps in it as step1,step2. But I want to execute step2 before step1 ? How do I do that?

821


Why block size is multiple of lrecl in jcl?

903


Explain the function of the dd dcb keyword?

689


How to alter the parameters for the existing gdg?

702