Changing the Format of the Active Job Selection List

To help you identify the jobs that are running, Strobe provides the Strobe- Active Job Selection List panel, which identifies all jobs that are currently active. You can control the format of the columns on this panel as well as limit the job names and types of jobs that are included in the list. For each column on the panel, you can choose whether to display the column in the list, whether to sort the values in the column, and the column’s sort sequence.

Changing the Display Format

To customize the display format complete the following steps:

1. Type Y in the CHANGE DISPLAY FORMAT field of the Strobe- Active Job Selection List panel.

2. Press Enter to display the Strobe- Active Job Display Format panel, which controls the format of the Active Job Selection List. The Strobe- Active Job Display Format panel lists the fields you can display on the Strobe- Active Job Selection List panel.
   
   

   Strobe

   - Active Job Display Format panel
   

3. Choose the display order, sort column, and sort sequence. DISPLAY TITLE shows the name of each column. These values are described in the section Setting SYSOUT Parameters.

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   1. To specify the order of the columns that display across the screen, type the number sequence in the DISPLAY ORDER column. To omit a column from the display, leave DISPLAY ORDER blank.

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      You must display JOBNAME, JOBNUM, PROC STEPNAME, and STEP NAME.

   2. To specify the category sort order, type a number in the SORT COLUMN field. Type 1 for the primary sort field, 2 for the secondary sort field, and so forth.
   3. To specify the sort order within a column, specify A for ascending or D for descending in the SORT SEQUENCE field.

For example, the earlier figure shows the Strobe- Active Job Display Format panel for the following requirements:

• Display a list of jobs in decreasing order of TCB time
• List jobs with the same TCB time listed in alphabetical order by job name.
• Display the columns in the following order: JOBNAME, JOBNUM, PROC STEPNAME, STEP NAME, TCB TIME, SRB TIME, WSS, SWAPSTATUS, and ELAPSED TIME.
• AutoStrobe only: Sort the information by TCB TIME in descending order. Type 1 in the SORT COLUMN field next to TCB TIME. To sort in descending order and type D in the SORT SEQUENCE COLUMN field next to TCB TIME. To sort all entries with the same TCB TIME in alphabetical order, type 2 in the SORT COLUMN and A in the SORT SEQUENCE column for the JOB NAME field.

Changing the List Limits

To limit the job names and types of jobs included in the list of active jobs:

1. Type Y in the Change List Filters field on the Strobe- Active Job Selection List panel.

2. Press Enter to display the Strobe - Limit Active Job List panel.
   Strobe - Limit Active Job List Panel

   

3. To limit the active job names to job names beginning with a particular string of characters, type the job name or type the string followed by the wildcard character ( * ) in the Jobname field. For example, to list job names beginning with ABC, type ABC*. To list all job names, type the wildcard character (*).

4. Type Y in the appropriate field to limit the Strobe- Active Job Selection List panel to:
   
   

   Job	Batch jobs
   TSO	TSO sessions
   Started Task	Started tasks
   APPC	Advanced Program-to-Program Communications
   OMVS	z/OS UNIX System Services

5. Press Enter to redisplay the Strobe- Active Job Selection List panel with your new choices.