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

JCL Interview Questions

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What are the maximum and minimum sizes of any CONTROL AREA (VSAM datasets) ?

Patni,

2 13267

How to get cursor position from system in CICS environment ?

8 40556

How many parameters are there to a DISP statement and what are their uses ?

3 7828

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

CitiGroup,

5 33584

What does SYSIN * indicate?

2 8258

What u mean by include statement in JCL ?

3 29160

The maximum number of in-stream procedure you can code in any JCL is ?

5 15721

What is a COND parameter in JCL?

TCS,

10 64173

How many types of libraries are there in JCL ?

IBM,

2 11544

What you mean by skeleton JCl?

2 14861

How do you submit a JCL under CICS environment ?

Wipro,

5 15980

How to change default PROCLIB?

1 13919

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 program opens the file in EXTEND mode. What happens ?

3 13752

How to execute a set of JCL statements from a COBOL program ?

6 16348

What are three major types of JCL statements? What are their functions?

1 9707

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What is one line to pass PARM from JCL to COBOL?

4953

Is their any limit for data sets?

1188

Explain the function of a dd statement?

1209

How does the jcl specify the job to os?

1157

I have a job called careerride and some steps in it as step1,step2. But I want to execute step2 before step1 ? How do I do that?

1396

Explain how can return codes be tested before execution of a job step?

1327

How to remove the spaces at end of each record in the output file Via COBOL program? note: The file has a VB length ----TRY

1377

What statement marks the beginning of a job step; assigns a name to the step; identifies the program or catalogued or in-stream procedure to be executed in the step?

1100

Where can program checkpoints be stored for use in a restart?

1436

What is the function of the dd avgrec keyword in sms datasets?

1338

How to run cobol program using jcl?

1226

Matching Logic in Jcl not in cobol.Could any one please answer this question

4154

how to compare two datasets without using superce because output is limited to 133 bytes

2108

how you can access an uncataloged dataset in a JCL?

1133

How to alter the parameters for the existing gdg?

1204

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