4.5. Jobs

The Jobs function enables you to view and manage jobs on the system. You can do many job management functions from this folder, but the Work Management component, provided with V5R1, offers more function and flexibility. You would use the Jobs component as a way to limit some of the job management capabilities.

For example, by default you are presented with only the jobs actively running (or held) on the system that are running under your user ID (profile) name.

In our screen examples in this topic, we have used menu bar Options -> Include to specify “all jobs”. Because displaying job information for “all jobs” could have a performance impact on a production system with thousands of jobs active, we show later a menu bar Options -> ...

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