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Workspace z/OS
Categories JES2
Created by Guest
Created on Aug 2, 2024

RELATED IDEAS

JES2 $POLICY DISPLAY enhancement

$POLICY DISPLAY currently only shows installed JES2 policies and whether they are enabled or not.


To keep the overview of all policies, there should be some enhancements made on this:

  • Include the POLICYLIB from which the policy was loaded

  • Include the date and time when the policy was imported

  • Make it possible to view a policy in detail (I know, the policy is stored in internal format, but it should be possible to make the rules visiable)

With this, it would be easier to know: Which was the last installed policy, see the information if the policy member was lost (for any reason) and know from which dataset it was loaded, if there may would be duplicate policiy names within different datasets (or the same) - e.g. for fallback reasons to old policies




Idea priority Medium
  • Guest
    Apr 2, 2026

    It would be helpful if there is an JES2 command in addition. We'e no SDSF if there will be a new feature. It would be benefitical do directly see the stuff by an JES2 command

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  • Guest
    Mar 23, 2026
    In z/OS 3.2, the JES2 Property SSI (SSI 82) was updated to support a new return policy information function (SSJPPYOD and mapping IAZJPLCY) which includes where the policy was imported from (JPYGPATH section), Policy import timestamp (JPYGISTP) and optionally, the policy source (JPYGPSLN and JPYGPSRC). The import information (data set/path and time) is available for policied imported on JES2 3.2 and later. The source JSON is available if, when the policy was imported, JES2 was ACTIVATE LEVEL=z32, DATADEF REPOSITORY=ENABLED, and APARs OA68485 and OA68644 are active.
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