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IFS, spool & jobs

IFS

Under IFS, click Add IFS Path and enter a directory, for example /home/GGUPTA or /www.

Action How
Browse Expand folders; folders come first, files show their size
Open / edit / save Click a file, press Ctrl+S
New file / folder Right-click a folder → Create IFS File / Create IFS Directory
Delete Right-click → Delete IFS Entry. You are asked to confirm, and folders are deleted with all their contents.

Right-click a folder → Search Text in IFS Folder… to search all text files below it (case-insensitive, binary files skipped, first 500 hits).

IFS files are transferred unchanged over SFTP. Files in EBCDIC CCSIDs will look garbled; convert them to UTF-8 (CCSID 1208) first.

My Spooled Files

Shows your spooled files, newest first (up to 300), with job, number, status, pages and creation time.

  • Click a spooled file to open it (read-only text, via CPYSPLF … TOFILE(*TOSTMF)).
  • Right-click → Delete Spooled File deletes it (DLTSPLF).
  • Click the refresh icon on My Spooled Files to reload the list.

My Active Jobs

Shows your active jobs with status, type, subsystem and current function. Jobs in MSGW show a warning icon.

  • Click a job, or use Show Job Log, to open its job log: time, message ID, type and text.
  • Right-click → End Job runs ENDJOB … OPTION(*IMMED). You are asked to confirm first.