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$HASP1551 LIST Messaging for HTTP_NOTIFY

When JOBDEF is coded with HTTP_NOTIFY=DISABLED and a z/OSMF request specifies X-IBM-Notification-URL, JES2 issues message $HASP1551 even though notification will not be possible. $HASP1551 LIST -- Send HTTP notification when job is READY $HASP1551...
2 months ago in z/OS / JES2 0 Future consideration

Add SSI 82 functions to return current values of items in DEF parms

We recently dropped all direct control block access (using an offset table) in a product, switching to SSI 82 ("the supported way"). This created an issue with one customer, who was depending on the value we returned for the spool volume prefix. I...
9 months 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...
almost 4 years ago in z/OS / JES2 2 Future consideration

Enhance JES2 to support compression of dynamic PDS PROCLIBs.

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

JES2 Policy - enhancement

z/OS2.4 has brought up great function of JES2 Policy however there are many fields which are not modifiable and bring a constrain in the way if we like to replace our jes2 exits. One of the example is SYSOUTGROUP where XMITTER field is not mention...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / JES2 1 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...
about 4 years ago in z/OS / JES2 0 Future consideration

Provide JES2 health check to show when init parms do not match currently active parms

We have a number of JES2 environments which have evolved over time. Due to consolidation, acquisitions and simplification, JES2 init parms may have been modified without the active environment being updated. With many parameters, a JES2 warm start...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / JES2 0 Future consideration

JES2 policy editor

JES2 policy is a new feature in z/OS 2.4 that allows system programmer to create JES2 job preprocessing and post processing other than using exits. However, JES2 policy is in form of JSON. It would be more user friendly to design the JES2 policy w...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / JES2 0 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
almost 4 years ago in z/OS / JES2 6 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)
over 6 years ago in z/OS / JES2 2 Future consideration

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