About this task
You can use the Job Status view to keep track of jobs running
on a remote system and monitor their status.
The Job Status view displays:
- The data and time a job was submitted
- The name of the job, for example, 202818/JSMITH/QZRCSRVS
- The name of the Remote System Explorer connection associated with the
job, if applicable
- The status of the job
- The type of task being performed by the job:
- Project_build_name Build: Jobs
submitted as the result of an i Project build
- Batch Compile: Batch compile jobs submitted by
the Remote System Explorer
- Batch Program: Batch programs running and submitted
by the Remote System Explorer
- Batch Command: Batch commands submitted by the
Remote System Explorer
- (Blank): Regular jobs that you have explicitly
added to the Job Status view
To add jobs to the Job Status view:
What to do next
You can right-click any jobs in the Job Status view to perform
actions against them, for example, to release the job or display the job log.
See the related links for more information on these types of tasks.
To
remove one or more jobs from the view, click the remove selected job
or remove all jobs
button from the view's toolbar.
Some jobs with specific tasks
have task-specific actions. For example, i Project build tasks have Cancel and Retrieve Errors actions.
These appear on the pop-up menu under Task Actions if
there are any.
You can also automatically add jobs initiated by the Remote
System Explorer to the Job Status view. A preference is set in the Command
Execution preferences page to allow you to add these kinds of jobs to the
view. To access these preferences,
- From the Remote Systems view, click the drop-down menu
and select .
- Expand IBM i and
click Command Execution.
- In the preferences page on the right, note the check boxes for Add
batch compiles to the Job Status view and Add batch
commands to the Job Status view. If you want to be able to add
these kinds of Remote System Explorer jobs to the IBM i job monitor, make sure that these check boxes are selected.
Attention: The status field in the Job Status view only refreshes
if the IBM i Remote
System Explorer connection associated with the job is connected. If the connection
is disconnected or offline then the status field will not be refreshed.