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Output Handling

z/OS TSO/E User's Guide
SA32-0971-00

Output produced by a background job differs from output in the foreground in the following ways:
  • Messages producing multiple levels are printed in their entirety. (It is the same as entering a question mark (?) and recovering all levels in the foreground.)
  • The allocation of an output data set to the terminal causes that output to be printed after all other output.

If it is necessary to see the output at your terminal rather than waiting to have it printed on the system printer, one of two things can be done:

  1. Place the output in a data set
  2. Have the output held and use the OUTPUT command to look at it

For the appropriate JCL, see Writing JCL for Command Execution.

Parent topic: Executing Foreground Commands from a Background Job

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