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JES2

JES2 health monitor for converter tasks

JES2 health monitor task should detect that all of the converter TCBs are in a long wait and issue an appropriate error message.
about 11 years ago in z/OS / JES2 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,...
about 11 years ago in z/OS / JES2 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 11 years ago in z/OS / JES2 Future consideration

PLAC0711-1421 Improve JES2 to fully support concurrent Daylight Saving Time changes

SUBMITTER SECTIONSubmitted by: Carles.ArisSubmitters Company: la Caixa PUBLICRequirement Number and Title: PLAC0711-1421 Improve JES2 to fully support concurrent Daylight Saving Time changesHomework Assigned: NoRequirement Category: Core Technolog...
over 11 years ago in z/OS / JES2 Future consideration

PLAC0412-1497 Improve JES2 SYSOUT API (SAPI) reliability

SUBMITTER SECTIONSubmitted by: Carles.ArisSubmitters Company: la Caixa PUBLICRequirement Number and Title: PLAC0412-1497 Improve JES2 SYSOUT API (SAPI) reliabilityHomework Assigned: NoRequirement Category: Core TechnologyCurrent Status: Recognized...
over 11 years ago in z/OS / JES2 Future consideration

More granularity to secure JES2 commands

Nowadays you can only protect who can CANCEL any BATCH, any STC or any TSO in global but not by any other filter; for example: FORCE parameter, jobname,… If you have permission to the JES2.CANCEL.BAT resource, you can cancel any JOB. It would be i...
almost 12 years ago in z/OS / JES2 Future consideration

JES2 - Job requeuing jobs to avoid Dataset contention fails

When a batch job is holding a dataset, if another batch job requires the dataset exclusively - the second batch job fails and then requires a manual intervention to resubmit the job when the resource become free
almost 12 years ago in z/OS / JES2 Future consideration

Spool Offload/Reload should allow Boolean operators

SUBMITTER SECTIONFIT Number: MR00073821User Marketing Field Requirement Number: SSJES299003Title: Spool Offload/Reload should allow Boolean operatorsSubmitted By: IBM User Group Relations/Dallas/IBMOriginators Area: DFNA / 972-447-0298FPOC: Mark B...
about 12 years ago in z/OS / JES2 Future consideration

JES2 jobs submitted with surrogate user id don't put message in JOBLOG

Jobs submitted with a surrogate user id don't put the information as the rest of the jobs. When a JOB enters the execution queue, it gets annotated time and date in JOBLOG. If the JOB is submitted with a surrogated user, that is not the case. Cust...
about 12 years ago in z/OS / JES2 Future consideration

Add accounting information to SMF type 6

SUBMITTER SECTIONFIT Number: MR1117112415User Marketing Field Requirement Number: SSMVSE11028Title: Add accounting information to SMF type 6 (printer output)Submitted By: IBM User Group Relations/Dallas/IBMOriginators Area: UGDIV : S UGGROUP : MVS...
over 12 years ago in z/OS / JES2 Future consideration