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Control M : Commands entered against a job or task


 ? (WHY) Displays what a job is waiting on.   This shows only what a job is currently waiting on at that      
 time.   It will not show conditions that have already been met, and, certain requirements may change.
  ex – you may check a job and it is waiting on a certain job/in-condition one minute.  you check 5 minutes
         later and the in/condition may have been met, but it now is waiting on an INIT. 
    Also, within this screen, you can add an IN-CONDITION.  USE CAUTION when doing this.  It should
    only be used when you are ABSOLUTELY SURE that you want to add this condition as it will add it for
    any job on the schedule looking for it- and any other job looking for it on that day.
L  (log) Displays IOA log entries for that job. 
H (hold) Puts job in held status.  A job held will not change states until it is freed.  For example, if a job
        is executing is held, even though the job ends, Control M will not change it’s state to ENDED until
        the job is freed.   Also, a job that is held (even one ended-ok) will never leave the AJF until it is freed.
Z  (zoom) Dispays schedule definition attributes for that job.  You can also change most of the attributes
        defined here, but the job must be held first.   After making changes, type save at the top, and then you
         must free the job.   See more detail on the Zoom screen below. 
R  (rerun) Performs rerun on job, will bring up confirmation and rerun option box.
         A couple of the options you have in the rerun box are picking the steps to run from(start job from this
         step) and to (only run to this step-NEVER USE).  Also, you can tell CTR to ignore condition and
         abend codes from previous steps.  This is only to be used at discretion of programmer.
A  (activate) Activates a job that is in DISAPPEARED or FAILED –REASON UNKNOWN status. Rarely if ever used.
O  (force ok)  Sets job to ENDED OK status without submitting job.  Remember, you are telling CTM that this job has ended ok, and it will post it’s OUT-CONDITIONS. 
V  (view) View archived sysout(s) for job.  You can used this for any job that has ended (ok or not). 
N  (net) Displays network of job.  Remember your network is reliant on your SHOW setup.  If your current show screen has a prefix of one job, that one job is all you will see, or if you have ‘ended ok’ flagged as N,
you won’t any jobs that ended ok within that network of jobs.
D  (delete) Deletes entry (entry must be held)  Remember to check if a job has dependencies.  If it does, it should not be deleted without first accounting for those dependent jobs. 
F  (free) Frees held entry
S (stats) Displays run stats for entry.  Stats goes back 20 runs (not 20 days, but 20 runs, if a job runs 5x’s a day, you will see about 4 days worth of stats.)  Stats include start/end time, duration, and average run time on top. 
U (undelete) returns deleted job to it’s status prior to delete request
J  (jcl edit) brings up jcl member from the overlib library – only used on jobs that are abended and have jobs in the RERUN library.
C (confirm) confirms job (only used on jobs that are in WAIT CONFIRMATION state
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