Filtering Jobs in Spool

There is a possibility to list only the jobs which has ABENDED, leaving out all other jobs in the spool.

For such a kind of listing, use the primary command FILTER on the command line as given in the examples below.

FIL MAX AB* - shows jobs that has ABENDS

Other Examples are:

Shows jobs that has JCL errors:

FIL MAX ‘JCL ERROR’

Shows jobs with “exceptional conditions”:

FIL MAX NE ‘RC 0000’

Shows successfully completed jobs:

FIL MAX EQ ‘RC 0000’

If you want to switch off the filter, then issue FIL OFF.