Patent ID: 8381187

Claim:
A computer program product comprising a non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing computer usable program code for retrieving portions of a job output, said computer program product including: computer usable program code for displaying a graphical representation of lines of the job output in a graphical user interface, wherein the graphical representation of lines of the job output is a graphical summary that represents a plurality of lines of the job output without displaying an individual line of the job output, wherein the graphical user interface includes a set of controls used to select a portion of the job output by selecting a range of lines from the graphical representation of lines of the job output, wherein the set of controls is manipulated by a user to specify a lower range and an upper range of the range of lines from the graphical representation of lines of the job output, and wherein the lower range is different than the upper range; computer usable program code, responsive to the user manipulating the set of controls to select the portion of the job output, for displaying the portion of the job output, wherein the portion of the job output includes lines of job output corresponding to the selected range of lines from the graphical representation of lines of the job output; and computer usable program code for displaying errors in the graphical representation of lines of the job output.