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

JCL Interview Questions

Questions Answers Views Company eMail

How is the keyword DUMMY used in JCL?

4 12670

What does the keyword DCB mean and what are some of the keywords associated with it?

ITC Infotech,

3 9623

What is the difference between BLKSIZE and LRECL?

3 17271

Can you execute a PROC from another PROC?

Keane India Ltd,

8 28517

What will happen if you attempt to restart a job in the middle of a JCL // IF .... // ENDIF?

4 10580

How many positional parameters are there in job statement?

4 15990

What are three parameters you can specify on Job statement as well as on exec stmt ?

1 7164

How can you trap abends in the JCL?

3 16065

How do you restart a step in JCL?

HSBC,

12 95108

How do you pass parameters to the program as the job is being executed ?

2 7153

Why do you use a control card?

IBM, iNautix,

3 32684

How do you submit JCL via a Cobol program?

Cap Gemini,

2 21678

How do you submit a JCL under CICS environment ?

IBM,

1 8616

What is the parameter to be passed in the job card for the unlimited time , irrespective of the job class ?

IBM,

2 10028

Definition of COND parameter in JCL

TCS,

5 26140

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Un-Answered Questions { JCL }

A chkpt is the parameter coded for multi-volume qsam datasets in a dd statement. When a chkpt is coded as chkpt=eov, a checkpoint is written to the dataset specified in the sysckeov statement at the end of each volume of the input/output multi-volume dataset. State whether true or false?

1289

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

1337

What is the difference between run mode and addressing mode?

1247

The disp in the JCL is MOD and the program opens the file in OUTPUT mode. What happens ? The disp in the JCL is SHR and the pgm opens the file in EXTEND mode. What happens ?

1542

Is it possible to code instream data in a PROC?

1329

Suppose I have a program in cobol name ”careerride” and want to execute the program by jcl. Specify the process?

1115

is there any way to execute more than one proc in the same exec statement at the same time..?

2632

How to override loadlib?

2036

Explain the function of the dd dcb keyword?

1254

Explain the function of //jcllib statement?

1208

How jcl work to handle various input output file operations?

1163

Can we call instream to catalog and catalog to instream?

1143

A dd statement consists of 4 fields. Name them?

1420

Suppose I have five jobs to do. But I want to hold one?

1127

When output dataset space is required, what quantity categories are used?

1362

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