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JES2 Checkpoint Contents

We have not performed a JES2 COLD start in years (good thing). We've realized the settings in JES2 do not match the JES2 parms exactly and believe we have a risk if we ever do another COLD start. We would like an IBM supported utility or program t...
over 9 years ago in z/OS / JES2 1 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...
5 months 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...
9 months ago in z/OS / JES2 0 Future consideration

Support JESLOG parameter on job card with the master subsystem

We execute our Netview STCs under the master subsystem rather than under JES2 and they can stay up for months at a time. The JESMSGLG can grow to several million lines which consumes a non-insignificant amount of spool space. We don't need that in...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / JES2 1 Future consideration

Add job submitter information to SMF Type 26 record (Purge)

(this may be a duplicate - I thought I submitted this but cannot find it)Currently the type 26 job purge record contains the user ID of the job submitter but this is not sufficient for audit purposes - because of ID propagation the ID alone does n...
about 4 years ago in z/OS / JES2 0 Future consideration

JES2 ePVT space requirement

We've recently upgraded to zOS 2.3, and JES2 now requires a large amount of ePVT storage. For us this posses a problem as require over 1200MB of ECSA. Currently we flip flopping applications as they are required. Is there any way to reduce the ePV...
almost 6 years ago in z/OS / JES2 2 Planned for future release

Allow $TDESTDEF,RDEST=USER

Allow RDEST of DESTDEF to be modified dynamically. Currently it requires an all member warm start, which in many environments is just not possible so the change is impossible to make.
over 6 years ago in z/OS / JES2 0 Future consideration

JES2 $DOGBERT NAME= should detect name not found condition earlier

The implementations of $DOGBERT in both HASPCKPT (routine $DOGBERT) and HASCSRIC (BERTREAD) when search for a match on NAME, continue until the end of the chain for the CBTYPE. In both routines the search is at label DGNSRCST. It appears that the ...
almost 7 years ago in z/OS / JES2 0 Future consideration

Provide a JES2 command to display the number of lines an STC has written and at what point it will abend

This concerns tasks that are not cycle more than a few times a year. When a started task is not cycled often, it can lead to S722 abends due to the amount of lines written. The JCT holds the line count. Even when SPIN is specified, it does not dec...
about 7 years ago in z/OS / JES2 0 Future consideration

Requesting $ZAPSOOL command similar to $ZAPJOB to remove complete volume

Accidentally dataset names of spool volumes have been deleted. At next warm start JES2 didn't recognize spool volumes anymore because dataset names were missing. Reply at warm start was replied with GO, because no data was modified on volumes.Now ...
over 9 years ago in z/OS / JES2 1 Planned for future release

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