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

JCL Interview Questions

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

Cap Gemini,

1 12689

How do you access a file that had a disposition of KEEP?

3 18330

MOD, DELETE; What does a disposition of (,DELETE) mean ?

3 11288

What is the DD statement for a output file?

3 9239

What do you do if you do not want to keep all the space allocated to a dataset?

2 6404

What is DISP= (NEW,PASS,DELETE)?

HCL,

3 31196

How do you create a temporary dataset? Where will you use them?

IBM,

2 21970

How do you restart a PROC from a particular step?

5 41930

How do you skip a particular step in a proc/JOB?

CSC, CTS,

5 29644

A PROC has five steps. Step 3 has a condition code. How can you override/nullify this condition code?

IBM, Wipro,

5 38204

What are the kinds of job control statements?

3 7280

What is the meaning of keyword in JCL? What is its opposite?

1 6962

Describe the JOB statement, its meaning, syntax and significant keywords?

1 4561

Describe the EXEC statement, its meaning, syntax and keywords?

2 5216

Describe the DD statement, its meaning, syntax and keywords?

2 8626

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Mention the types of job control statements?

905

Brief description of inline procedure of jcl.

900

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

937

What are hierarchy levels in jcl?

1228

Explain how can a jobs execution priority be modified?

949

What do you understand by the term “keyword” with respect to jcl and what is the opposite of the term?

866

How to find the UNIT and VOLUME of a (a) KEPT (b) UNCATALOGED and (c) CATALOGED dataset - using (i) JCL and using (ii) ISPF ?

2407

How is the record format of an output dataset specified?

966

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1886

What are the difference between jcl and jes?

1277

List the various advantages of using jcl language?

1118

What is timing concept in mainframe?

1891

What is the motivation behind coding class parameter in job statement?

881

What are the jcl procedures?

836

What is the use of symbol // in jcl?

1119

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