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  1. What is a Generation Data Group (GDG)
  2. How is a GDG base created
  3. How are GDGs concatenated
  4. How is a new GDG coded
  5. What is model dataset label (Model DSCB)
  6. When should DISP=MOD is used
  7. How is a dataset passed from one step to another
  8. How are datasets concatenated
  9. What is DISP
  10. What are the kinds of job control statements
  11. What is the meaning of keyword in JCL
  12. What is the DD statement for an output file
  13. What is primary allocation for a dataset
  14. How do you restart a PROC from a particular step
  15. How do you create a temporary dataset
  16. How many extents are possible for a sequential file
  17. Name some of the JCL statements that are not allowed in process
  18. Describe the JOB statement, its meaning, syntax and significant keywords
  19. What is the difference between JOBLIB and STEPLIB statements
  20. What is the difference between primary and secondary allocations for a dataset
  21. What do you do if you do not want to keep all the space allocated to a dataset
  22. What is GDG
  23. What does S0C4 error mean
  24. What is the purpose of include statement in a JCL
  25. How do you submit JCL via a COBOL program
  26. Definition of COND parameter in JCL
  27. How do you restart a step in JCL
  28. How can you trap bends in the JCL
  29. Why do you use a control card
  30. How do you submit a JCL under CICS environment
  31. What is the difference between BLKSIZE and LRECL
  32. How is the keyword DUMMY used in JCL
  33. What is MOD and when would you use it
  34. Explain concatenating datasets
  35. What is RESTART? How is it invoked
  36. Describe the EXEC statement, its meaning, syntax and keywords
  37. Describe the DD statement, its meaning, syntax and keywords
  38. What is a PROC
  39. What is the difference between an in stream and a catalogued PROC
  40. What is a GDG and How is it referenced
  41. What is a MODELDSCB
  42. What is the difference between a symbolic and an override in executing a PROC
  43. What is a S0C4 error
  44. What is COND=ONLY
  45. What is S322 abend
  46. What are SD37, SB37, SE37 abends
  47. What does TIME=1440 mean
  48. What are the basic JCL Statements for a Job
  49. Why do you want to specify the REGION parameter in a JCL step
  50. What are the valid DSORG values
  51. What is NOTCAT 2
  52. What do you mean by spooling
  53. Expand SPOOL
  54. What is QSAM error usually when it is occurs
  55. What is meant by S0C7 system abend code
  56. How to pass the temp dataset form one JOB step to another
  57. Can you execute a PROC from another PROC
  58. How many positional parameters are there in job statement
  59. How do you pass parameters to the program as the job is being executed
  60. What are three parameters you can specify on Job statement
  61. What will happen if you attempt to restart a job in the middle of a JCL
  62. What is the purpose of the PARM keyword in the EXEC statement
  63. How do you designate a comment in JCL
  64. What is the difference between specifying DISP=OLD and DISP=SHR for a dataset
  65. What is the improvement to COND= in the latest version of MVS
  66. What is the meaning of the EXEC statement keyword, COND
  67. What is 'S0C7' abend
  68. Which is the most widely used batch performance monitor for DB2
  69. What is the use of DSNDB07
  70. What does the statements: typrun=scan and typrun=hold do in a JCL statement
  71. What are the differences between JES2 & JES3
  72. What is DATACOM db
  73. What do you feel makes a good program
  74. What is a procedure
  75. What is the error code SOC01 indicate
  76. What is a Dummy Utility and what it does
  77. What are the causes for S0C1, S0C4, S0C5, S0C7, S0CB abends
  78. What does SYSIN * indicate
  79. What is a COND parameter in JCL
  80. What you mean by include statement in JCL
  81. How many types of libraries are there in JCL
  82. What is order of searching of the libraries in a JCL
  83. What is the difference between static call & Dynamic call
  84. The maximum number of in-stream procedure you can code in any JCL
  85. What happens if both JOBLIB and STEPLIB are specified
  86. How to get cursor position from system in CICS environment
  87. What are the maximum and minimum sizes of any CONTROL AREA
  88. How many parameters are there to a DISP statement
  89. What 3 guidelines do we have to follow when concatenating DD statements
  90. How do you override a specific DDNAME/SYSIN in PROC from a JCL
  91. What is DSNDB06
  92. Can we browse or edit the GDG dataset if it is a tape entry
  93. What you mean by skeleton JCL
  94. How to change default PROCLIB
  95. Write a JCL to execute a job by 7 a.m on Jan 20,1986
  96. What is the max block size for a Tape file
  97. What are three major types of JCL statements and its functions
  98. What is the difference between catalogue procedure and In-Stream procedure
  99. What is the difference between IEBGENER, IEBCOPY and REPRO in IDCAMS utility
  100. How much OS space allocates when you create a PS or PDS
  101. Can we delete the data using IEFBR14
  102. Can you code in stream data in a PROC
  103. What does IEBGENER
  104. How do you check the syntax of a JCL without running it
  105. What is STEPLIB, JOBLIB? What is it used for
  106. What are all the changes to be made in JCL so as to do testing
  107. How to execute a set of JCL statements from a COBOL program
  108. What are the keywords associated with DCB
  109. How can you specify DCB information
  110. What is the OS precedence for obtaining that DCB information
  111. What is the meaning of data definition name and dataset name
  112. What is the purpose and meaning of the TIME keyword
  113. How much is memory space involved, when we code BLOCKSIZE, TRK & CYL
  114. Name the system library from which modules are retrieved at execution
  115. When we give TYPERUN = SCAN , what are the syntax errors we get
  116. What is maximum length of block size
  117. What is the use of the utility DFSRRC00 in the JCL
  118. What is the difference between the JCLLIB and JOBLIB
  119. What is JOBLIB?
  120. What is JOBLIB
  121. What is JCL LIB
  122. What is a cataloged procedure
  123. What is a MODEL Parameter in GDG
  124. What is a GDG? Why do we go for a GDG
  125. How do you handle empty files in a JCL
  126. What are the symbolic parameters
  127. Why do we use symbolic parameters
  128. What is a Proc and why do we go for a Proc
  129. What is the use of DUMMY statement in the JCL
  130. What is GDG and what is the maximum limit of versions that can be created
  131. How do you send the output of a COBOL program to a member of a PDS
  132. List some valid operation codes in JCL
  133. What is SORT
  134. How do we eliminate duplicate records in SORT
  135. How can we select records using SORT