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 13176

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

3 19035

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

3 11913

What is the DD statement for a output file?

3 9980

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

2 6910

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

HCL,

3 32094

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

IBM,

2 22734

How do you restart a PROC from a particular step?

5 42938

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

CSC, CTS,

5 30729

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

IBM, Wipro,

5 39388

What are the kinds of job control statements?

3 7845

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

1 7331

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

1 4945

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

2 5714

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

2 9167

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Un-Answered Questions { JCL }

Differentiate between addressing mode and run mode.

998

How is a type of file defined in the jcl that executes the cobol program?

1140

Step 1 RC 4 Step 2 Step 3 I want to know the COND parameter which can be coded in step 2 or 3. Step 2 should be executed based on Step 1 RC and Step 3 should not be executed based on step 1's RC

4830

How to do automated restart when a job abend?

1284

Is there any command to check wether the ps file is in sorted order?

2827

Explain the purpose of the dd keylen parameter?

1098

Is it possible to code instream data in a PROC?

1252

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

1175

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2733

How to pass the parameter in parm using linkage section ? (syntax)?

1068

What are the parameter we cannot use in procedure? How many instream we can write in single jcl?

999

What are s0c1, s0c4, s0c5, s0c7 and socb?

1124

How to override loadlib?

1953

How can a fb file convert to vb file using sort program?

1289

In job processing, what happens in conversion stage?

1146

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