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JES2

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More granularity to secure JES2 commands

Nowadays you can only protect who can CANCEL any BATCH, any STC or any TSO in global but not by any other filter; for example: FORCE parameter, jobname,… If you have permission to the JES2.CANCEL.BAT resource, you can cancel any JOB. It would be i...
over 9 years ago in z/OS / JES2 45 Future consideration

Enhance JES2 to support compression of dynamic PDS PROCLIBs.

Enhance JES2 to support compression of dynamic PDS PROCLIBs.
about 5 years ago in z/OS / JES2 0 Future consideration

A JES2 Policy that scans JCL cards is required

Submitted By: SHARE-MVSE Submitted Date: 02/05/2023 Submitter Name: Mike Shorkend (System Software Specialist) Submitter Email: mike@shorkend.com Description: The same way as JES2 provides exits 4/54 to scan all JCL cards for a job, this is needed...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / JES2 0 Future consideration

How to print the $HASP138 SPIN message written to CEEMSG to SYSLOG or JESMSGLG?

We split the CEEMSG DD of CICS with the following line:// CEEMSG DD SYSOUT = *, SPIN = (UNALLOC, 10M)==> ceemsg output:08.38.16 S0310063 İHASP138 CEEMSG SPIN HAS OCCURRED BECAUSE OF LINE COUNT or we use "time":// CEEMSG DD SYSOUT = *, SPIN = (U...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / JES2 2 Future consideration

JES2 Access enhancement for MSGCLASS, SYSOUT as already provided for JOBLCASS

We are using a user written exit to control usage of: SYSOUT JOBCLASS MSGCLASS OUTPUTCLASS Currently supported by RACF out of the Box is 'only' the JOBCLASS using Profiles: JES.JOBCLASS.* in CL(FACILITY)
almost 6 years ago in z/OS / JES2 2 Future consideration

Need job submitter userid in memory resident location

To obtain the job submitter of a job requires disk i/o to get the JCTTOKEN out of the JCT for the job and then use RACROUTE REQUEST=TOKENMAP against the JCTTOKEN to convert the security token into human readable text that is mapped by the ICHRUTKN...
almost 4 years ago in z/OS / JES2 0 Future consideration

Enhance JCL TYPRUN=SCAN testing to JES2 Symbol Replace in Instream Data

In z/OS 2.1 TYPRUN=SCAN finds more Job Errors if INTERPRET JES is activated in JESparm. This is nice, but i´ld like to see an additional enhancement related to z/OS 2.1 JES2 Symbol Replacement in Instream Data using//xyz DD *,SYMBOLS=(...) TYPRUN=...
over 8 years ago in z/OS / JES2 1 Future consideration

Enhance JES2 Symbol Replace in instream data related to blank processing

If I use JES2 symbol-replace in instream-Data there is special processing of blanks. Manual: "When symbols are substituted in in-stream data, the system attempts to maintain the position of non-blank characters. This is achieved by adding or remov...
over 8 years ago in z/OS / JES2 1 Future consideration

Support NOTIFY JCL in PROCs and INCLUDEs - (was Add dynamic system symbol for max return code of a job)

MVS already defines a dynamic system symbol for the job name of the current job (&JOBNAME). It would be nice to also have a symbol for the highest return code of the current job
over 3 years ago in z/OS / JES2 6 Future consideration

SA JES2 SPOOL monitor to detect unusual growth

In normal operation, JES2 spool can fill up and notification is received when we hit the JES2 warning level. The warning level we currently have set is 80% and we have SPOOLSHORT commands in-place to reduce this. However, what we do not have is vi...
about 6 years ago in z/OS / JES2 1 Future consideration

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