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JES2

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Enhance IAZ0543I informational message

Any application doing a socket call to bind or connect to a IP address, or to get a port number from the TCPIP stack during startup can fail with LE's error message "EDC8116I Address Not Available" for the errno. It's up to the application to prov...
over 4 years ago in z/OS / JES2 2 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,...
over 9 years ago in z/OS / JES2 1 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 ...
about 7 years ago in z/OS / JES2 0 Future consideration

SDSF SJ command

Allow SJ SDSF command to support remote jobs .
over 2 years ago in z/OS / JES2 1 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...
over 7 years ago in z/OS / JES2 0 Future consideration

JES2 new Function (STAC Queue Corrupted)

ITAP-SSSE z/OS JES2 support, suggested that we submit a RFE, requesting that the development team introduce a new function in JES2 so that the STAC queue is verified when a STATUS/CANCEL SSI call is being handled and if queue error is detected, th...
over 6 years ago in z/OS / JES2 0 Future consideration

Change to the wording of $HASP865 CONFIRM MEMBER(004) NAME=xxxx IS TO BE ADDED

The wording of this Jes2 WTOR does not provide enough information for our operators to make a decision $HASP865 CONFIRM MEMBER(004) NAME=HOD9 IS TO BE ADDED It would be more constructive for the WTOR to read as follows :- $HASP865 CONFIRM MEMBER(0...
about 4 years ago in z/OS / JES2 0 Future consideration

Add Scheduling of Real Resources to JES2

Provide a JES2 facility to schedule jobs based upon their real resource requirements and the current availability of those resources in the system. The facility must extend to a Multi-Access Spool environment. The system (not the operator or syste...
over 4 years ago in z/OS / JES2 1 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
about 10 years ago in z/OS / JES2 2 Future consideration

Add SYSPLEX to SMF type 26 (job purge)

SUBMITTER SECTIONFIT Number: MR1117112417User Marketing Field Requirement Number: SSMVSE11030Title: Add SYSPLEX to SMF type 26 (job purge)Submitted By: IBM User Group Relations/Dallas/IBMOriginators Area: UGDIV : S UGGROUP : MVS UGPROJ : MVSEFPOC:...
over 10 years ago in z/OS / JES2 2 Not under consideration