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JES2

Write message from JES2 policy to joblog

JES2 policies can be used to force installation requirements like accouting information.The user should be informed that the job does not meet the guidelines especially if it is canceled by a poicy. And a good place to do this is joblog.
about 3 years ago in z/OS / JES2 Future consideration

Controlling who can submit jobs with specific SCHENV

We want to control which users can submit jobs with a specific SCHENV. Currently, we control submissions using a JES2 JclEvaluation policy. However, the restriction should be much more granular and user-based.
5 months ago in z/OS / JES2 Future consideration

JES2 - More granular Security Controls

According to the most current documentation related to zOS 3.1 to control input to your system, it is only possible to control job class usage. See documentation for reference. However, the job class is not the only attribute that shall be control...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / JES2 Future consideration

JES2 Resource Group support regarding Job Output commands

Currently, it's documented that $POJQ,/RESGROUP=xxx works to purge all job output that is associated with jobs in a JES2 Resource Group. Using this command results in: $HASP003 RC=(82),PO JQ RESGROUP - INVALID FILTER KEYWORD According to the PMR t...
9 months ago in z/OS / JES2 Future consideration

Add a command to know who is using resource for a scheduling environment

We use scheduling environment to schedule execution of job on LPAR who have resources available for the job. The job start on the good LPAR but have several steps. It happens sometimes that after the job start, one resource become unavailable so w...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / JES2 Future consideration

JES2 $TA commands should be checkpointed so they survive IPLs or JES2 restarts

JES2 automatic commands ($TA commands) do not survive IPLs or JES2 restarts. Many times, $TA commands are set to execute days into the future. If an IPL occurs before the set execution time, the target of the $TA commands never get executed. $TA c...
2 months ago in z/OS / JES2 Future consideration

Controlling who can submit jobs with specific SCHENV

We want to control which users can submit jobs with a specific SCHENV. Currently, we control submissions using a JES2 JclEvaluation policy. However, the restriction should be much more granular and user-based.
5 months ago in z/OS / JES2 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 5 years ago in z/OS / JES2 Future consideration

Enhance JES2 to support compression of dynamic PDS PROCLIBs.

Enhance JES2 to support compression of dynamic PDS PROCLIBs.
about 7 years ago in z/OS / JES2 Future consideration

New JES2 policy to replace JES2 EXIT 6 functions like security checking for TIME parameter.

Hi We don’t want users to specify TIME=nnnn/NOLIMIT on the exec or job statement without proper authorization. So the idea is to check if a user specifies TIME=nnnn/NOLIMIT in his JCL and then check via the “AuthorityCheck” function a RACF profile...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / JES2 Future consideration

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