SDSF is a program that runs on TSO/E and uses Interactive System Productivity Facility (ISPF) panels. With SDSF, you can:

• Display immediate, up-to-date information about the jobs submitted to JES2 and JES3 for processing, including:
  • Jobs on the input queue, output queue (JES2 only), and held queue (JES2 only)
  • Job status of a specific job, including the job’s priority and input class, the time and date the job was entered in the system, and the time and date the system began processing the job
  • System information about active jobs
  • Spool data sets for a specific job
  • Output from a job
• Monitor and control jobs, output, and resources in a JES system without using JES command syntax.
• Enter MVS™, JES2, and JES3 system commands from any TSO/E terminal.
• View the system log (SYSLOG), operations log (OPERLOG), or user log (ULOG) online and search for specific information, which can reduce problem management time and eliminate the need for a printed copy of the log.
• View input data sets of jobs that are being processed or waiting to be processed.
• View output data sets online and purge them, which can reduce the system print load.
• Control remote printers and schedule output to be printed at remote printers.
• View output from the MVS Health Checker.
• Get online information: help for panels, commands, and messages; an interactive tutorial for ISPF users; and online documentation through BookManager®.