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

JCL Interview Questions

Questions Answers Views Company eMail

how to split a file

IBM,

4 18066

how can we override data definitions in jcl. can any one give detailed example

TCS,

3 15219

how to skip the steps in JCl

EDS,

2 9691

there are 10 steps in jcl how to execute the steps from step2 to step8 only

EDS,

6 14056

what is the cond=even only

EDS,

4 8891

how to concatenate datasets

EDS,

5 23934

what is instream data

EDS,

2 7241

can we give instream data in procedure

EDS,

6 19344

in jcl you are having JCLLIB and STEPLIB what happens

EDS, Wipro,

10 26185

I have a JCL with 10 steps, want to execute first 5 steps only, what are ways of doing it?is it possible to control through JOB card?

iGate,

10 37584

I have a JCL with 10 steps, want to execute first 5 steps only, what are ways of doing it?is it possible to control through JOB card?

iGate,

5 13065

In a JCL if previous steps return code is greater than 0 or 4 then the next step will not execute. But the job will be successfull with the maximum return code. How can we reset this maximum return code to '0' regardless of return codes of any steps?

4 27635

I found in one of the jcl, gdg version being mentioned as : abc.def.ghi(-0) Can anyone tell me how referring the version as (-0) is different from referring it as (0)

2 6530

I have two input SORTIN files and We need to create one SORTOUT file which contains data of both input files. What is the SortCard for this?. Suppose the length of the both files are different, then How we do it? Please reply ASAP

CSC,

4 33196

how to identify the file used in the JCL is an VSAM file. Just seeing the JCL code how can we track the file as VSAM file?

CSC,

6 17494

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Un-Answered Questions { JCL }

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

Is acct parameter mandatory?

1208

Can we call instream to catalog and catalog to instream?

1145

Differentiate between the joblib and the steplib statements?

1439

What are the 2 types of parameters in dd statement?

1155

what is the purpose of coding notify parameter in job statement?

1162

What parameter of the job statement is used to limit the cpu time consumed by the job?

1279

What is the function of the steplib dd statement?

1202

How to override loadlib?

2040

which parameter is use to declare the name of dataset in dd statement?

1266

Name the parameters which can be used to limit the number of records written to a sysout dataset?

1154

What is the function of dd disp parameter?

1135

I had Records in file Like this Company Code IBM 2 IBM 1 IBM 4 WIPRO 3 WIPRO 2 WIPRO 9 TCS 4 TCS 6 TCS 3 i want the record of every company with highest code How can i do that?

10154

what happens in conversion stage in job processing?

1220

How do you access an uncatalogued dataset in a jcl?

1216

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