BeginnerPlatform24 min
IOF: finding and reading job output
Many sites use IOF instead of (or alongside) SDSF to look at jobs and their output. Start IOF, find your job, open the right output, and read it the way a support engineer does.
What you will be able to do
- Start IOF from ISPF or TSO and list only the jobs you care about
- Use the job list and job summary to see every step's return code at a glance
- Open the right output dataset first and trace a failure to the message that explains it
Lessons
- What IOF is and how to start itIOF (Interactive Output Facility) is a vendor product, an alternative to IBM's SDSF, for looking at the JES2 spool: jobs waiting to run, jobs running, and the output of finished…
- The job list and the job summaryThe IOF job list shows matching jobs grouped as input, running and output. Put S beside a job to open its job summary, which lists every step with its return code or abend, and…
- Reading job output like a support engineerRead job output in a fixed order. First the job summary, to find the first step that did not end with return code 0. Then the system messages for that step.
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