diff --git a/packages/zowe-explorer/src/trees/job/JobFSProvider.ts b/packages/zowe-explorer/src/trees/job/JobFSProvider.ts
index 2aee3ed16..d8dfa7833 100644
--- a/packages/zowe-explorer/src/trees/job/JobFSProvider.ts
+++ b/packages/zowe-explorer/src/trees/job/JobFSProvider.ts
@@ -207,11 +207,16 @@ export class JobFSProvider extends BaseProvider implements vscode.FileSystemProv
         const bufBuilder = new BufferBuilder();
 
         const jesApi = ZoweExplorerApiRegister.getJesApi(spoolEntry.metadata.profile);
+
+        const queryParams = new URLSearchParams(uri.query);
+        const startRecord = Number(queryParams.get("startRecord"));
+
         try {
             if (jesApi.downloadSingleSpool) {
                 const spoolDownloadObject: IDownloadSpoolContentParms = {
                     jobFile: spoolEntry.spool,
                     stream: bufBuilder,
+                    startRecord,
                 };
 
                 // Handle encoding and binary options
@@ -232,7 +237,17 @@ export class JobFSProvider extends BaseProvider implements vscode.FileSystemProv
         }
 
         this._fireSoon({ type: vscode.FileChangeType.Changed, uri });
-        spoolEntry.data = bufBuilder.read() ?? new Uint8Array();
+        if (startRecord > 0) {
+            const newContents: Uint8Array | null = bufBuilder.read();
+            if (newContents != null) {
+                const combined = new Uint8Array(spoolEntry.data.length + newContents.length);
+                combined.set(spoolEntry.data, 0);
+                combined.set(newContents, spoolEntry.data.length);
+                spoolEntry.data = combined;
+            }
+        } else {
+            spoolEntry.data = bufBuilder.read() ?? new Uint8Array();
+        }
         spoolEntry.mtime = Date.now();
         spoolEntry.size = spoolEntry.data.byteLength;
         if (editor) {
diff --git a/packages/zowe-explorer/src/trees/job/JobInit.ts b/packages/zowe-explorer/src/trees/job/JobInit.ts
index 93a13ad49..31cbdfc25 100644
--- a/packages/zowe-explorer/src/trees/job/JobInit.ts
+++ b/packages/zowe-explorer/src/trees/job/JobInit.ts
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
  */
 
 import * as vscode from "vscode";
-import { IZoweJobTreeNode, IZoweTreeNode, ZoweScheme, imperative, Gui } from "@zowe/zowe-explorer-api";
+import { IZoweJobTreeNode, IZoweTreeNode, ZoweScheme, imperative, Gui, FsJobsUtils } from "@zowe/zowe-explorer-api";
 import { JobTree } from "./JobTree";
 import { JobActions } from "./JobActions";
 import { ZoweJobNode } from "./ZoweJobNode";
@@ -162,6 +162,29 @@ export class JobInit {
                 JobFSProvider.instance.cacheOpenedUri(doc.uri);
             })
         );
+        context.subscriptions.push(
+            vscode.window.onDidChangeTextEditorVisibleRanges(async (e) => {
+                const documentUri = e.textEditor.document.uri;
+                if (documentUri.scheme !== ZoweScheme.Jobs) {
+                    return;
+                }
+                const spool = JobFSProvider.instance.lookup(documentUri, true);
+                if (spool == null || !FsJobsUtils.isSpoolEntry(spool)) {
+                    return;
+                }
+
+                for (const range of e.visibleRanges) {
+                    // if range contains line count of document the line count is
+                    // less than the record count of the spool, attempt to fetch more records
+                    if (
+                        range.contains(new vscode.Position(e.textEditor.document.lineCount, 1)) &&
+                        e.textEditor.document.lineCount < spool.spool?.["record-count"]
+                    ) {
+                        await JobFSProvider.instance.fetchSpoolAtUri(documentUri.with({ query: `?startRecord=${e.textEditor.document.lineCount}` }));
+                    }
+                }
+            })
+        );
         SharedInit.initSubscribers(context, jobsProvider);
         return jobsProvider;
     }