The Jobs view

When connected to a z/OS® system the Jobs view lists all the completed and running jobs that you are authorized to view and that match the job name prefix and owner ID that you specify. You can expand the job to show the ddnames associated with the spool files, and open the spool files to show the content.

You must be connected to an FTP server on your host system before you can view any jobs. See the related links later in this topic for further information about configuring system connections.

To view jobs enter the job name prefix in the Name field and the owner ID in the User field, and press Enter. You can use one or more wildcards in the Name or User fields to refine the results. You can use the following wildcards:
*
A single asterisk indicates that at least one character must occupy that position. A single asterisk in the dsname field or user field indicates that zero or more characters can occupy that position. For example:
  • CICPRO* finds data sets that start with CICPRO and that have any character in position eight, such as CICSPROD, or CICSPRO2.
  • CIC* finds data sets that start with CIC and that have one or more characters following, such as CICS or CICS2, or CICSTEST

The Jobs view shows the same information that you see when you are viewing jobs in the Held Output Queue in ISPF, and using the same job name prefix. You can click the Menu icon The Menu icon and choose to display all jobs or only output, active or input jobs.

A screen capture of the Jobs view showing a list of jobs. Some of the jobs are expanded to show the ddnames. The last job in the lis is a long-running job.

Each type of job is indicated by an icon. The job icons are listed in the following table:

Table 1. Job types an icons
Icon Job type
The icon for a job The Job icon. The icon is followed by the Job name and the Job ID.
The icon for a job that has not run successfully. The job icon is decorated with the error overlay, a red X. The icon for a job that has not run successfully.
The icon for a running job. The job icon is decorated with the active overlay. The icon for a job that is running.