Got it. The ‘special dataset’ is presumably $JOURNAL. I found that I had only 
tested with STCs. It works ok for JOBs where the jobclass has JOURNAL=Yes. It 
does not seem possible to set JOURNSL=YES for STCs. Back to the drawing board.

Keith

> On 11 Aug 2022, at 19:06, Keith Gooding <kw...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> Thank you Rob and Paul. At least I know that it should work. In fact I think 
> it *did* once work in the same sysplex at z/os 2.4 but I cannot be 100% sure.
> 
> The systems are in the same MAS (2 systems sharing a JES2 spool and 
> checkpoint). Are there any instructions in the SDSF configuration that I may 
> have missed ? . Should I open a case with IBM ?
> 
> Keith
> 
>> On 11 Aug 2022, at 17:28, Rob Scott <rsc...@rocketsoftware.com> wrote:
>> 
>> The SDSF "JS" action does not get sent to remote systems in the sysplex. It 
>> reads data from a special JES2 dataset for the job locally.
>> 
>> A possible reason for no data being shown is that the job on the remote 
>> system is not in the same MAS.
>> 
>> Rob Scott
>> Rocket Software
>> 
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>> Subject: Re: SDSF JS command cross-sysplex [EXTERNAL]
>> 
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>> 
>> 
>> Keith, I'm assuming you are talking about looking at job on a different lpar 
>> in the same sysplex, also part of the same JES MAS.
>> 
>> This is a display of a job running on a different lpars then the one I was 
>> logged on to.  This is a z/OS 2.4 environment.
>> 
>> SDSF JOB STEP DISPLAY - JOB DTSTM01D (JOB24586) SMF    LINE 1-19 (19)
>> COMMAND INPUT ===>                                            SCROLL ===> CSR
>> PREFIX=*  DEST=(ALL)  OWNER=*  SYSNAME=
>> NP   STEPNAME ProcStep Pgm-Name Step-CC    AbendRsn StepNum Elapsed     
>> CPU-Time    SRB-Time
>>    STEP000  TMSCOPY  TMSCOPY  CC 0000                   1  0:00:17.79  
>> 0:00:02.73  0:00:00.46
>>    STEP005  STEP001  TMSDATA  CC 0000                   2  0:00:12.71  
>> 0:00:00.71  0:00:00.23
>>    STEP005  STEP002  IDCAMS   CC 0000                   3  0:00:02.08  
>> 0:00:00.41  0:00:00.01
>>    STEP003  SAS      SAS      CC 0000                   4  0:01:14.04  
>> 0:00:29.98  0:00:00.58
>>    STEP005  STEP004  IKJEFT01 CC 0000                   5  0:00:00.06  
>> 0:00:00.02  0:00:00.00
>>    STEP005  STEP04A  TMSUPDTE CC 0000                   6  0:00:01.08  
>> 0:00:00.14  0:00:00.01
>>    STEP005  STEP005  IKJEFT01 CC 0000                   7  0:00:00.05  
>> 0:00:00.02  0:00:00.00
>>    STEP005  STEP05A  TMSUDSNB CC 0000                   8  0:00:01.22  
>> 0:00:00.17  0:00:00.02
>>    STEP005  STEP006  IKJEFT01 CC 0001                   9  0:00:00.05  
>> 0:00:00.02  0:00:00.00
>>    STEP005  STEP06A  TMSUPDTE FLUSH                    10
>>    STEP005  STEP007  IKJEFT01 CC 0001                  11  0:00:00.05  
>> 0:00:00.02  0:00:00.00
>>    STEP005  STEP07A  TMSUDSNB FLUSH                    12
>>    STEP010  TMSEXPDT TMSEXPDT CC 0000                  13  0:12:12.33  
>> 0:02:45.00  0:00:09.36
>>    STEP010  EARL     EARL     CC 0000                  14  0:00:00.55  
>> 0:00:00.04  0:00:00.00
>>    STEP020  TMSCTLG  TMSCTLG  CC 0000                  15  0:20:46.39  
>> 0:01:27.02  0:00:03.23
>>    STEP020  EARL     EARL     CC 0000                  16  0:00:00.93  
>> 0:00:00.34  0:00:00.01
>>    STEP030  TMSCYCLE TMSCYCLE CC 0000                  17  0:00:06.49  
>> 0:00:00.49  0:00:00.07
>>    STEP030  EARL     EARL     CC 0000                  18  0:00:00.58  
>> 0:00:00.04  0:00:00.00
>>    STEP040  TMSCLEAN TMSCLEAN ACTIVE                   19
>> 
>> 
>> F SDSF,D JES
>> ISF304I Modify DISPLAY command accepted.
>> ISF351I SDSF JES Subsystems
>> Sysname  JES      Version  Status
>> CM01     JES2     z/OS 2.4 ACTIVE
>> PR05     JES2     z/OS 2.4 ACTIVE
>> CM02     JES2     z/OS 2.4 ACTIVE
>> PR03     JES2     z/OS 2.4 ACTIVE
>> PR02     JES2     z/OS 2.4 ACTIVE
>> PR01     JES2     z/OS 2.4 ACTIVE
>> 
>> 
>> Paul Feller
>> GTS Mainframe Technical Support
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> On Behalf Of 
>> Keith Gooding
>> Sent: Thursday, August 11, 2022 9:34 AM
>> To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
>> Subject: SDSF JS command cross-sysplex [EXTERNAL]
>> 
>> I found that the SDSF ‘JS’ (job steps) command issued from the SDSF panels 
>> or via the REXX API  produces no output if the target job is running on a 
>> different system in the sysplex. This is with z/os 2.5. On a 2.3 system the 
>> same happens except that the heading says ‘no job steps found’ (or similar 
>> message).
>> 
>> Is anyone able to use JS cross-system or is this working as designed?.  I am 
>> able to use others commands such as JT (Job Tasks) so I know that the SDSF 
>> address spaces are talking to each other.
>> 
>> Keith Gooding
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