Subcommands for the OUTPUT command are: CONTINUE, END, HELP, and SAVE. When output has been interrupted, you can use the CONTINUE subcommand to resume output operations.

Pressing the attention key purges the input/output buffers for the terminal. Data and system messages in the buffers at this time may be lost.

Although the OUTPUT command attempts to back up 10 records to recover the lost information, results are unpredictable due to record length and buffer size. You might see records repeated or notice records missing if you attempt to resume processing of a data set at the point of interruption (using the HERE operand of CONTINUE, or in the next session, using HERE on the command).

You can use the SAVE subcommand to copy a SYSOUT data set to another data set for retrieval by a different method. Use the END subcommand to terminate OUTPUT. The remaining portion of a job that has been interrupted is kept for later retrieval at the terminal.