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A DD statement has 2 types of parameters. Name them ?
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  1. Keyword, Control

  2. Positional, Keyword

  3. Dynamic, Static

  4. Named, Dynamic

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Correct Option: B

How can a job send a status message to a TSO user at the completion of a job ?

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  1. STATUS

  2. NOTIFY

  3. ENDMSG

  4. USER

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Correct Option: B

DD DUMMY statement specifies no space allocation & no disposition processing

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  1. True

  2. False

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Correct Option: A

What parameters can be used to limit the number of records written to a SYSOUT dataset ?

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  1. LIMIT

  2. SIZE

  3. MAX

  4. OUTLIM

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Correct Option: D

OCCURS clause cannot be at the 01 level?

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  1. True

  2. False

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Correct Option: B

Sign is stored in the last nibble in a COMP-3 Field
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  1. True

  2. False

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Correct Option: A

What is the mode in which you will OPEN a file for writing?

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  1. OUTPUT

  2. INPUT

  3. EXTEND

  4. APPEND

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Correct Option: A,C

How can unused space allocation be returned to the system when a dataset is closed ?
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  1. RETURN

  2. RLSE

  3. CONTIG

  4. CLOSE

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Correct Option: B

What statement marks the end of an in-stream or Catalogued procedure in a JOB?
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  1. STREAM

  2. SET

  3. PROC

  4. PEND

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Correct Option: D

What is the maximum length of a single line of JCL ?

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  1. 71 bytes

  2. 60 bytes

  3. 55 bytes

  4. 80 bytes

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Correct Option: A