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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...
over 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...
over 6 years ago in z/OS / JES2 0 Future consideration

additional JESLOG SPIN options

provide several additional options to the JESLOG=SPIN parameter:- ability to spin once a week- adhoc by command- ability to keep the first bit of output
over 8 years ago in z/OS / JES2 1 Future consideration

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.
over 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...
about 10 years ago in z/OS / JES2 2 Not under 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...
over 6 years ago in z/OS / JES2 2 Planned for future release

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...
over 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...
almost 9 years ago in z/OS / JES2 1 Future consideration

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 Policy to examine the job card time parameter

We use the job card TIME parameter to assign a job class so the ability to read the value will simplify our ability to reduce/eliminate JES exits.
over 2 years ago in z/OS / JES2 0 Future consideration

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