CSCI 465                                    Name _____________________
Summer, 2009


                              Quiz 2

                            (10 points)

    On multiple choice questions, pick the best available answer.
    True-false questions are 1 point each and multiple-choice 
    questions are 2 points each.


1.  Names that we invent in JCL (step names, DD names, etc.) can be 
    made up using letters (A-Z), digits (0-9) and the characters
    ?$?, ?@? and ?#?.

*** A.  True
    B.  False


2.  How do we insert a comment into JCL?  Pick the best answer.
 
    A.  There is no way.
    B.  The only way is to use the ?user name? field on the JOB 
        statement.
    C.  Skip at least one space at the end of any line, and the rest        
        of the line is a comment.
    D.  Put ?//*? in columns 1, 2 and 3 of a line to create a 
        whole-line comment.
*** E.  Either C or D.


3.  The TIME parameter can be coded on either the EXEC statement or
    the JOB statement.

*** A.  True
    B.  False


4.  Which of these (A ? D) is true about the TIME macro?

    A.  It is an NIU macro.
    B.  It provides us with the time of day and date in registers 1 
        and 2.
*** C.  The date includes the number of the day in the year (1 ? 366).
    D.  By default, the time of day and date are provided as binary 
        values.
    E.  All of A ? D are false.



5.  Suppose my job has two steps called FIRST and SECOND and I want   
    SECOND to be executed only if the return code from FIRST is in the 
    range 0 through 7.  Then the COND on step SECOND should be:

         COND=(8,LE,FIRST)

*** A.  True
    B.  False


6.  Which of these (A ? D) is not true about JCL?

    A.  A job is made of up to 255 steps.
    B.  A step has an EXEC statement.
    C.  The first line is the JOB statement.
    D.  Lines in JCL begin with ?//? or occasionally ?/*? in columns 1    
        and 2.
*** E.  All of A ? D are true.
   

7.  In the NIU structured macros, there are two formats for logical
    conditions depending on whether the test involves a comparison.

*** A.  True
    B.  False