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 9096

how do you resolve for soc7 error

ACS, iGate,

6 22064

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

Accenture,

6 14283

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.

3081

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

4 9670

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

Ocwen,

2 10865

how can we pass external data to instream procedures

IBM, Infosys, Ocwen,

5 13532

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

IBM, Satyam, Wipro,

2 14533

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 19052

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 12785

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 12433

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

2 25248

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 10055

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 57088

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

IBM,

13 27209

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how to run batch program without jcl?

11381

What is concatenating?

1043

what sort card you will use to copy the data from one dataset to another dataset?

1161

what is use of dsn parameter in dd statement?

1128

What do you understand by the term notcat 2 – gs?

1208

when can a job time-out occur? How to overcome that?

1232

List the different components of jcl statement?

1039

how can a gdg base be created in a jcl. What is the difference between empty and scratch parameter while defining/altering gdg base?

1248

what is use of space parameter in dd statement?

1230

What do you understand by the term job time – out and how can you overcome that?

988

what are the statements that are not valid to be included in an include statement?

1345

what is SOC4 error?

1179

What is jcl in mainframe?

1155

I want my job (careerride) to be executed in 1 minute and 2 seconds. How do I do that?

1193

How to execute 2nd and 4th steps among 5 steps in jcl proc?

1243

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