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

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