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 13305

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

3 19213

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

3 12090

What is the DD statement for a output file?

3 10147

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

2 7043

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

HCL,

3 32302

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

IBM,

2 22899

How do you restart a PROC from a particular step?

5 43241

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

CSC, CTS,

5 30957

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

IBM, Wipro,

5 39697

What are the kinds of job control statements?

3 7999

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

1 7447

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

1 5035

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

2 5836

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

2 9290

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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

What is concatenating?

1077

Is acct parameter mandatory?

1200

what is use of dcb parameter in dd statement?

1298

What do we mean by 'Virtual storage' for a dataset and for a JOBSTEP ? What is the significance of the following statement for a programmer 'Virtual storage results in program addresses being independent of the addresses that actually exist in a computer' ?

2024

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

1132

My Question is 1. How to cound no. of records in JCL. Please explain with an example. 2. How to execute only odd steps in JCL? I know EDIT TYPE = Inculde, Step Name = 1,3,5 and COND code for all even step. Anyone knows other than this.

2467

what happens in execution stage in job processing?

1141

a set statement is used to define commonly used symbolic across job steps or procedures. It initializes the previous values in the symbolic names. It has to be defined before the first use of the symbolic names in the jcl. State whether true or false?

1080

How gdg are concatenated?

1118

Explain how can the attributes of one sms dataset be copied to another dataset?

1213

how you can access an uncataloged dataset in a JCL?

1133

Is their any limit for data sets?

1187

hello friends ,i have exam in Hsbc,pls any on send me placement papers and technical questions on mainframes,thank u

2140

What is the function of a dd statement?

1203

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