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

JCL Interview Questions

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what is the general use of PARM? Give an explanation about the system defined parameters that could be passed through this PARM like XREF,LIST,LET,APOST,RENT etc..

Cognizant,

3 13025

why jobstep can't be more than 255 and for GDG has max limit 255 . Is there any relation between the two

IBM, Perot Systems,

1 7906

If a jcl has just 1 step and the input file to this does not exist, then what will happen if we submit this job?

3 9973

common jcl abends??

ADP, Wipro,

2 32104

if you have big pgm. during compilation is abends with (soc7)how do you know which line has soc 7 error.

IBM,

4 11078

How to send notification to multiple users through jcl???

8 27251

how to create a member or sequential dataset through tso command??

4 17545

If a field is declared as a comp-3 field and if we want to sort a dataset based on this field, then how will the sort card be??? e.g- if we want to sort by a field which is defined as a PIC X(5) then we will mention - sort fields=(1,5,ch,a). Likewise if a field is defined as PIC S9(10)COMP-3 then in this case how will the sort field be defined (because in this case a sign is also involved)???

8 41797

1.How to check for the errors using TYPRUN=SCAN?What will be the output if we give TYPRUN=SCAN?

11 48869

IN-STREAM DATA NOT ALLOWED IN PROC how can come out from this problem

7 27557

How to execute 300 steps in a Job?

Accenture, Zensar,

15 36914

Can a job have only steplib and no joblib ?

6 13097

Is it possible to take a PDS and write it to a GDG? If so, can you provide an example? Thanx

7 15941

how to have variable length record in outrec..i have the requmt as follows.. i/p file variable lenght record output file : i need to alter the input and write into outrec(another file) sort fields: copy from(dd1) using ctl1 ctl1cntl dd * outfil fnames=xxx, outrec=(1,131) here i outrec is bombing with error..how to overcome this defect...???

1 16802

Suppose I have Five Steps in PROC In this Case I want to Execute third Step in PROC using Main JCL don't use any COND Explain with Coding Thanks & Regards SHREE

Merrill Lynch,

4 14735

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Is automatic restart possible in jcl? If yes, how?

1116

How to code these statements in JCL: CLEANUP INITIAL(NO) RESTART(NO) DYNALLOC(NO) job definition..?

2254

Explain the function of //cntl statement?

1168

In sms datasets, what is the function of the dd mgmtclas keyword?

1384

Explain the function of the dd dcb keyword?

1256

Can I send output of job to my remote device careerride123?

1137

what is the JCL statement consists of?

1191

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

1277

How jcl is used for testing batch programs?

1280

What is the function of the dd dcb keyword?

1337

Must tape dataset definitions include vol=ser specifications?

1724

Mainframes gets a text file that contains the name of the file. Now using JCL i want to locate that file name in the mainframe system and perform further processing. Please tell how to proceed

2564

When space is allocated for an output dataset, what units can be used?

1266

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

1515

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

1258

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