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

JCL Interview Questions

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after submiting the jcl.how do you know that the job has been completed.

ACS,

4 9260

how do you resolve for soc7 error

ACS, iGate,

6 22286

I have a PDS and want to omit few rows of all members of a PDS. How to do it?

Accenture,

6 14487

I have a Symbolic Parameter which can have a value say 01 or 02 etc. Now consider i have another Symbolic parameters which is used to get 3 digit code of months (JAN, FEB, etc) but for that i need to check the first symbolic parameter's value and provide its corresponding month's name in the second symbolic parameter. Say IF sym1 = 01 then sym2='Jan' ENDIF etc... In JCL, IF condition is used for RC, ABEND purposes of a step etc. When i use Symbolic parameter in IF clause it is showing Error message. Is there a way to get the above result possible in JCL. If you could provide me with an example, i would understand it better.

3138

How can i execute 5th step without executing first 4 steps?

4 9868

what are the options in file-aid to edit vsam dataset and to compare data sets.

Ocwen,

2 11006

how can we pass external data to instream procedures

IBM, Infosys, Ocwen,

5 13712

What is difference between Return Code, user completion code, Abend code and reason Code?

IBM, Satyam, Wipro,

2 14641

If the COND parameter is specified in both the JOB and EXEC statements, which one will take precedence? If JOB takes priority and if all the conditions evaluate to false, then will the conditions on the EXEC step be evaluated next?

Wipro,

4 19243

Suppose a proc step has a DD statement like //ABC DD DSN=TEST.FILE1,DISP=SHR DSN=TEST.FILE2,DISP=SHR and the above DD name is overridden from the JCL as given below //procstepname.ABC DD DSN=TEST.FILE3 - Will the DD statement now have just TEST.FILE3 or it will be TEST.FILE3 and TEST.FILE2? Suppose if it is overridden twice like //procstepname.ABC DD DSN=TEST.FILE3 //procstepname.ABC DD DSN=TEST.FILE4 Will this give a JCL error? If not, what will be final output?

2 12881

If the proc stepname is excluded while overriding the COND, TIME, REGION and PARM parameters while calling the proc, will the override only apply to the first step in the proc or all the steps for all the above parameters?

2 12558

Is there a limit of 3273 DD statements for a JCL or for every EXEC step in a JCL?

2 25377

There are 2 steps in a JCL. If the first step abends due to system or user abend and the second step has COND specified as EVEN or ONLY, will this step still be executed inspite of the abend in the previous step?

2 10156

My JCL have five steps & I created new versions of GDG in first step through fourth step & fifth step I was refered Step one GDG version. My JCL got abend at 4th step and how I can restart my JCL Please let me know the answers. //STEP1 EXEC GDG1(+1) DISP=(NEW) //STEP2 EXEC GDG1(+2) DISP=(NEW) //STEP3 EXEC GDG1(+3) DISP=(NEW) //STEP4 EXEC GDG1(+4) DISP=(NEW) //STEP5 EXEC GDG1(+1) DISP=(OLD)

HCL, IBM, L&T, TCS,

11 57521

How many types of parameters are used in JCL and what are mandatory parameters of JOB statement.

IBM,

13 27619

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Un-Answered Questions { JCL }

Explain the purpose of dd dummy statement?

1221

How jcl work to handle various input output file operations?

1169

Is it possible to left uncode disp? If yes, how?

1193

What is condition checking in jcl? Is this possible?

1116

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

1624

what are the various stages of job processing?

1284

Explain the function of job statement in jcl?

1211

I have a COBOL program that ACCEPTs some input data. How do you code the JCL statement for this?

1193

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) ?

2228

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

1456

What is the function of a dd statement?

1208

Explain the function of dd disp parameter?

1121

is there any way to execute more than one proc in the same exec statement at the same time..?

2634

Matching Logic in Jcl not in cobol.Could any one please answer this question

4154

what is the compile process of cobol program expalin with code

2586

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