How can submitting user's RACF authority be overridden in a job stream?
Through the USER parameter
Through the USER and PASSWORD parameter
Through the RACF parameter
By notifying the console operation to override authority
Many JCL statements contain specific values designed to direct and control the execution of the statement. What are these fields called?
Linkage variables
Parameters
Control libraries
Includes
Can an individual step be restricted from using all the job's allowed CPU time?
Yes
No
Only in catalogued procedures
Through the STEPTIME parameter
What is the maximum length of a single line of JCL?
72
74
73
71
What is the purpose of DD DUMMY statement?
Marks a deleted DD statement
Begins an interpreted command stream
Specifies no space allocation & no disposition processing
Suppress command processing
I am using internal sort in my cobol program . Is there any way to test the return code of operation???
No , we can't check the return code for internal sort however for external sort it can be done
YES,by using SORT-RETURN special register
YES, we can test via Run jcl.
YES,by checking in listing of the proram
What will happen if I change the below code MOVE ZERO TO TOTAL . PERFORM VARYING I FROM 1 BY 1 UNTIL I > 100 COMPUTE TOTAL = TOTAL + ITEM(i) * DISCOUNT END-PERFORM to the follwing code MOVE ZERO TO TOTAL PERFORM VARYING I FROM 1 BY 1 UNTIL I > 100 COMPUTE TOTAL = TOTAL + ITEM(i) END-PERFORM COMPUTE TOTAL = TOTAL * DISCOUNT
NO ERROR but offcourse the result will differ.
syntax error will occur
Run time error
NO ERROR with same result
If you are accessing ESDS VSAM file , then in cobol if you don't prefix the ddname with 'AS-' Then which abend might occur when attempting to open a dataset??
S213
S806
S000 U4038
S001-5
MERGE statement can have
O/P PROCEDUE and INPUT PROCEDURE both
O/P PROCEDUE but not INPUT PROCEDURE
INPUT PROCEDURE but not O/P PROCEDUE
can't use both of them
For KSDS or RRDS ,when DELETE statement is used the file must be opened in
Input mode
outout mode
I/O mode
extend