z/OS Jobs

In the Mainframe Navigation view, the z/OS jobs are shown when you expand the Jobs folder of a z/OS node.

This document covers the following topics:


Filtering z/OS Jobs

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

Start of instruction setTo define a filter

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

  2. Invoke the context menu and choose Filter.

    Or:
    Press F3.

    The following dialog box appears:

    Filter jobs

  3. Enter the filter criteria.

    Option Description
    Job name Job name on the job card. You can use a combination of strings and wildcards (* and _) to display the jobs matching the job name pattern.
    Class JES job class or output class.
    User ID ID of the user who submitted the job.
    Type If you are only interested in a specific type of job, you can activate one or more of the following check boxes:

    Job (standard operating system job)
    Started task
    TSO user

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

    Queue If you are only interested in specific queues, you can activate up to four check boxes for the JES queue type:
    Executing Executing queue.
    Input Input queue (held and non-held jobs).
    Output Output queue.
    Hold Output queue jobs on hold.
    Waiting Input queue jobs on hold.
    When none of these check boxes is selected, the information from all queues is always shown.
  4. Choose the OK button.

Displaying the Condition Codes of a z/OS 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 job

  1. Select a job in the Mainframe Navigation view.

  2. Invoke the context menu and choose Condition Codes.

    Or:
    Press CTRL+ALT+C.

    A read-only editor window appears.

    See also Commands for Browsing an Object.