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Write message from JES2 policy to joblog

JES2 policies can be used to force installation requirements like accouting information.The user should be informed that the job does not meet the guidelines especially if it is canceled by a poicy. And a good place to do this is joblog.
over 1 year ago in z/OS / JES2 4 Future consideration

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 ...
4 months ago in z/OS / JES2 0 Future consideration

A JES2 Policy that scans JCL cards is required

Submitted By: SHARE-MVSE Submitted Date: 02/05/2023 Submitter Name: Mike Shorkend (System Software Specialist) Submitter Email: mike@shorkend.com Description: The same way as JES2 provides exits 4/54 to scan all JCL cards for a job, this is needed...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / JES2 0 Future consideration

Display JES2 JOBID

Submitted By: SHARE-z/OS Systems Programming Submitted Date: 07/25/2023 Submitter Name: Dave Crow Submitter Email: dave.crow@triangle-systems.com Description: Display JES2 JOBID when that information might not otherwise be surfaced, in order to be...
3 months ago in z/OS / JES2 0 Future consideration

Display JES2 JOBID

Submitted By: SHARE-z/OS Systems Programming Submitted Date: 07/25/2023 Submitter Name: Dave Crow Submitter Email: dave.crow@triangle-systems.com Description: Display JES2 JOBID when that information might not otherwise be surfaced, in order to be...
3 months ago in z/OS / JES2 0 Future consideration

JES2 PERFDATA should be written as SMF records for improved usability

JES2 currently provides the results of collected performance statistics in the output of the $D PERFDATA command in many lines of $HASP660 sent to the console and consumable via review of syslog/operlog. The command provides several subscripts, $D...
7 months ago in z/OS / JES2 1 Future consideration

New JES2 policy to replace JES2 EXIT 6 functions like security checking for TIME parameter.

Hi We don’t want users to specify TIME=nnnn/NOLIMIT on the exec or job statement without proper authorization. So the idea is to check if a user specifies TIME=nnnn/NOLIMIT in his JCL and then check via the “AuthorityCheck” function a RACF profile...
12 months ago in z/OS / JES2 0 Future consideration

How to print the $HASP138 SPIN message written to CEEMSG to SYSLOG or JESMSGLG?

We split the CEEMSG DD of CICS with the following line:// CEEMSG DD SYSOUT = *, SPIN = (UNALLOC, 10M)==> ceemsg output:08.38.16 S0310063 İHASP138 CEEMSG SPIN HAS OCCURRED BECAUSE OF LINE COUNT or we use "time":// CEEMSG DD SYSOUT = *, SPIN = (U...
about 4 years ago in z/OS / JES2 2 Future consideration

Add SSI 82 functions to return current values of items in DEF parms

We recently dropped all direct control block access (using an offset table) in a product, switching to SSI 82 ("the supported way"). This created an issue with one customer, who was depending on the value we returned for the spool volume prefix. I...
11 months ago in z/OS / JES2 0 Future consideration

Enhance JES2 to support compression of dynamic PDS PROCLIBs.

Enhance JES2 to support compression of dynamic PDS PROCLIBs.
over 5 years ago in z/OS / JES2 0 Future consideration