z/OS Active Jobs

In the Mainframe Navigation view, z/OS active jobs are shown when you expand the Active Jobs folder.

This document covers the following topics:


Filtering z/OS Active Jobs

Before displaying z/OS active jobs, you can define a filter so that only those active jobs are shown which correspond to your filter criteria.

Start of instruction setTo define a filter

  1. In the Mainframe Navigation view, select the Active Jobs folder in the appropriate node.

  2. Invoke the context menu and choose Filter.

    Or:
    Press F3.

    The following dialog box appears:

    Filter active jobs

  3. Enter the filter criteria.

    Option Description
    Job name Job name. You can use a combination of strings and wildcards (* and _) to display the jobs matching the job name pattern.
    Type If you are only interested in a specific type of job, you can activate up to three check boxes:

    Job (standard operating system job)
    Started task
    TSO user
    Initiator (job entry system initiator)

    When none of these check boxes is selected, all information is always shown.

    Only in memory Activate this check box to display only in-memory active jobs.
  4. Choose the OK button.

Displaying the Condition Codes of a z/OS Active Job

When you display the condition codes of a job, they are shown in a read-only editor window.

Start of instruction setTo display the condition codes of a z/OS active job

  1. Select an active job in the Mainframe Navigation view.

  2. Invoke the context menu and choose Condition Codes.

    Or:
    Press CTRL+ALT+C.

    A read-only editor windowappears.

    See also Commands for Browsing an Object.