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

JCL Interview Questions

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How to DEBUG a JCL?

Satyam,

9 26954

What is the differentiation between TRK,cyl, and Bytes... how they can be connected??

2 29002

Hi, I have a requirement File A : I have 6 records out of which 4 are same. File B: I have 8 records out of 6 records are same. The 4 records in FILEA and 6 records in FILE B are same. If we substract we will get two records, I need these two records in output file This is because to remove the duplicates from the database. Through easytrieve we can compare but for that there should not duplicates, but in my file I have duplicates. Thanks in advance!!

2 10873

what is A-MODE and R-MODE?

2 8853

is it possible to submitt more than one job in job card in jcl? and if yes than is it necessary to have the jobs same name?

Accenture,

4 26238

if we have a job consist of two steps and each step calling a proc having 10 steps each then how many steps are counted only 2 or 22(10+10+1+1)? can we have more than 255 steps in a single job?

Accenture,

5 13153

can we have more than one job in a single job card that is we are specifying only one 'job' statement in the jcl.

Accenture,

7 20250

i have 3 steps in my jcl, where i want to run only one step at a time depending on the variable. How should i give the condition statement... I have tried this with two steps which is working but not able to add condn for the 3rd step. can anyone help me... I want to know the cond stmt which i can code in step 3 and step4, so that only either step2 or step3 or step4 executes

3 8995

How to rename a VSAM file as well as it's index file?

CitiGroup,

4 20592

What it does If we specify TYPRUN=P & it is not substituted by SCAN 0r HOLD in VALUE SET.

11869

Can we use COND=EVEN on a job card, when jobs are scheduled through scheduler?

L&T,

1 6522

Can we use COND=EVEN on a job card, when jobs are scheduled through scheduler?

L&T,

5 13435

how to create gdg with out using idcams utility

DSRC,

8 40192

how to identify a vasam dataset by seeing in 3.4(browse)

Cap Gemini,

5 11618

what is the alternative to model parameter?

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Un-Answered Questions { JCL }

what is use of dcb parameter in dd statement?

1300

what is the compile process of cobol program expalin with code

2578

Can we use DISP=SHR in output file in JCL

1417

How can values be passed from the job stream to an executable program?

1439

How to read and write a single record into a file. I would like to use it to enter a single 8-character piece of information and use it to put it into a variable for processing in JCL. Thank you

1071

Explain about LMFREE�free data set from its association with data ID

1628

What is jcl in mainframe, and how many types of jcl statements are there for a job?

1190

How to submit a jcl from cics?

1148

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

1327

which utility is used to run a cobol-db2 program?

1396

how to compare two datasets without using superce because output is limited to 133 bytes

2108

What is the syntax of JCL statement?

1230

What is catelog procedure and how many catelog procedure to use in one job?

8688

How to override loadlib?

2036

Explain dd statement in jcl?

1129

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