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JES2

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Preserve JESJCLIN & SYSIN over NJE / OFFLOAD / SECERROR

JES2 would preserve the special datasets JESJCLIN and the generated for SYSIN DD */DATA, when Jobs travel through NJE, OFFLOAD or there are security problems.
about 9 years ago in z/OS / JES2 1 Future consideration

WLM initiator

WLM initiator address space will be dropped after several minutes inactive. Customer want to control the WLM initiator dropping processing, such as there is a parameter we can set to control how many minutes the WLM initiator will be dropped, or e...
over 9 years ago in z/OS / JES2 1 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...
4 months ago in z/OS / JES2 0 Future consideration

Unsupported NJE remote executed commands improvement

The existing implementation of the $N command for NJE remote command execution does not fully support all commands. For instance, the $TA and $VS commands when send via the $N routing results in the issuance of $HASP649 - this is not a good error ...
almost 3 years ago in z/OS / JES2 0 Future consideration

Provide ability to dynamically increase JES2 initiators

Increasing the number of JES2 initiators requires a change to INITDEF PARTNUM, and then a JES2 warmstart. This is extremely disruptive and creates an outage. JES2 should provide a means to dynamically increase PARTNUM without requiring a JES2 warm...
about 4 years ago in z/OS / JES2 1 Future consideration

UPDATE RACF APPCLU SESSKEY ENCRYPTION

o We are unable to connect JES2 NODES when SIGNON=SECURE is specified on systems secured by RACF and those secured by CA ACF2 and CA Top Secret. Nodes where RACF is in use on both NODES are connecting successfully albeit with a non-FIPS 140-2 comp...
almost 6 years ago in z/OS / JES2 2 Future consideration

JES2: Add writer id(WTRID) to the JSPA fields so PSF exit 15 can pass writerid in the -opa parameter to a CMOD server

PSF MVS Download to CMOD server:We are testing using Download to send print to CMOD and wanting to customize the output filename to match our existing standards. I have looked at the APSUX15X sample exit, but noted that WTRID is not included in th...
about 6 years ago in z/OS / JES2 0 Future consideration

Identify when a job was released from the JES hold queue

<p>Copied from old SHARE Requirements system <span>SSSHARE018626</span>: Voting Priority=2.6</p><br /><p>+5=1 +4=4 +3=8 +2=6 +1=3 abstain=2 -1=1 Priority=2.6</p><br /><p>A field should be added...
almost 8 years ago in z/OS / JES2 2 Future consideration

(Dynamic) Recalculation of JQE blocks when SPOOLNUM is increased to avoid increase of BERT resources.

Addition of several new spool volumes to a JES2 MAS unexpectedly increased the usage of BERT resources. In our case, this caused a critical BERT resource shortage. JES2 was last cold started in the year 1997. Therefor the calculated JQE block prob...
over 8 years ago in z/OS / JES2 1 Future consideration

Customize JES Keepalive value

Our customer has 2 centers, and there are z114s on both sites. And TCPIP NJE session is established between node of two center. If packet loss occured between 2 centers, it may cause disconnect of NJE session. We can't avoid packet loss perfectly,...
almost 9 years ago in z/OS / JES2 1 Future consideration