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

JCL Interview Questions

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What is a PROC? What is the difference between an instream and a catalogued PROC?

2 12706

What is the difference between a symbolic and an override in executing a PROC?

2 13771

What is RESTART? How is it invoked?

HSBC,

8 23813

What is a GDG? How is it referenced? How is it defined? What is a MODELDSCB?

3 9868

Explain concatenating datasets?

CTS,

2 10104

What is the difference between specifying DISP=OLD and DISP=SHR for a dataset?

2 9410

What is MOD and when would you use it?

3 7598

What are the keywords associated with DCB? How can you specify DCB information? What is the OS precedence for obtaining that DCB information, ie. where does the system look for it first?

2 9001

How do you designate a comment in JCL?

1 9451

What is the meaning of the EXEC statement keyword, COND? What is its syntax?

2 6120

What is the improvement to COND= in the latest version of MVS?

3 7859

What is the purpose of the PARM keyword in the EXEC statement?

3 9494

What is the purpose and meaning of the REGION keyword and what JCL statement is it associated with?

IBM,

3 28358

What is the purpose and meaning of the TIME keyword and what JCL statement is it associated with?

1 5938

What is the meaning of data definition name (ddname) and dataset name (dsname) in the DD statement?

2 9522

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What is the purpose of dd * statement in jcl?

1339

Name a few IBM utility programs, and explain its function.

5039

Are there any set of rules for the names of the steps used in a job? What are they?

1118

What happens if both JOBLIB & STEPLIB is specified ?

1209

how can the same proc be re-used and called by many jobs?

1564

Is automatic restart possible in jcl?

1280

Explain how can the disposition of sysout datasets be set for an entire jobstream?

1152

Is condition checking possible in jcl?

1260

In job processing, what happens in execution stage?

1292

What statement can be used to send data to another mvs jes3 node?

1691

Explain the purpose of dd dummy statement?

1277

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

1267

How to run cobol program using jcl?

1297

In job processing, what happens in conversion stage?

1243

When space is allocated for an output dataset, what units can be used?

1333

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