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This document contains various day-to-day and rare SDSF commands.

Navigation commands and filtering

Description Command
Show all the jobs PRE *
Show all the jobs with a JOBNAME starting with JOB_NAME PRE JOB_NAME*
Show all the jobs by starting with JOB and ending with NAME PRE JOB%%NAME
Filter data by owning user ID OWNER userid%
Locate a line or column LOCATE COLUMN_NAME
Find a string A FIND A
View a SDSF user/Owner WHO
Show abended jobs FILTER MAX AB*
Show all jobs that ended with JCL error FILTER MAX ‘JCL ERROR’
Show jobs with exceptional conditions FILTER MAX NE ‘RC 0000’
Show successfully completed jobs FILTER MAX EQ ‘RC 0000’
Cancel all filters and show all jobs FILTER OFF

Printing

Issue a line command ‘XDC‘ against the Job you want to copy in a dataset. You need to give the name of the dataset where you want to store the information. Suppose, you do not want to capture the entire spool output of the JCL but wish to only store the information of JESYSMSG or JESJCL or JESMSGLG, then you can just give ‘XDC’ in front of JESYSMSG or JESJCL or JESMSGLG respectively.

Description Command
Prints to a data set and closes the print file when the printing is done. Write this command on the left of JOBNAME XDC
Prints the output that you are browsing. This command entered from within browse PRINT

Control cursor placement

Description Command
Keep the cursor on the row you are working with SET CURSOR ON
Return cursor to thecommand line SET CURSOR TOP
Scroll the log to the bottom every 15 seconds BOT &15

How to see the jobs in Input Queue?

In order to check the jobs present in the Input queue, you need to give option ‘I’ in the command input

Description Command
Check for all the jobs with the class A and C in Input Queue which are on hold IAC H
Check for all the jobs with the class A in Input Queue which are not on hold in IA NH

How to run a JCL directly from SPOOL area?

Issue a line command ‘SJ‘ against the job you wish to run. You can edit the JCL here and submit it. Please note that editing of JCL here does not save the changes in the member where your JCL is present so you cannot physically SAVE the changes but only logical editing can be done.

Description Command
Run a JCL directly from SPOOL area SJ