Manage interactive jobs

An interactive job starts when you sign on to the system or, transfer to a secondary or group job. The interactive job ends when you sign off. Working from a display station, you interact with the system by issuing commands, using function keys, and running programs and applications. The following information discusses the various methods for managing and controlling interactive jobs.

• Control inactive jobs and workstations
  You can control the amount of time the workstation can remain inactive before the subsystem sends a message (called time-out) by specifying a time interval in the Time-out interval for inactive jobs (QINACTITV) system value. Controlling inactive jobs provides security so that users do not leave signed on displays inactive.
• End interactive jobs
  There are several different methods that you can use to end an interactive job.
• Disconnect all jobs from a device
  The Disconnect Job (DSCJOB) command allows the interactive user to disconnect all interactive jobs at the workstation and return to the signon display. The switched line is dropped only if that is specified in the workstation device description of this workstation and if no other workstation on this line is active. If the job is disconnected when the disconnect interval in the Time-out interval for disconnected jobs (QDSCJOBITV) system value is reached, the job is ended and the job log is not included with the job's spooled output.
• Job disconnection considerations
  There are several factors that you must consider whenever you disconnect a job.
• Avoid a long-running function from a workstation
  To avoid a long-running function (such as save/restore) from a workstation without tying it up, the system operator can submit the job to a job queue.