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Revert $CS,P usage on STCs

I've noticed that after going to z/OS 2.4, using option 'P' in front of any executing STC, including DB2 STC tasks, DB2 is cancelled. From the manual, I found this happens only on z/OS 2.3 or later:https://www-01.ibm.com/servers/resourcelink/svc00...
almost 4 years ago in z/OS / JES2 2 Delivered

JES2 EMAIL DELIVERY SERVICES Customization

Provide ability to customize subject line when using JES2 EMAIL DELIVERY Services. Today we have to open the email to associate a jobname job number, system and rc of the job which is not convenient.
over 4 years ago in z/OS / JES2 1 Delivered

JES2 POLICY - read and use value of SYSTEM SYMBOL

Within the new JES2 POLICY we need the possibility to read and use some SYSTEM SYMBOLS.
over 3 years ago in z/OS / JES2 1 Delivered

Pass job name in &JOBNAME system symbol for JES2 users

Currently, the &JOBNAME system symbol in z/OS does not contain the actual job name; it is either JES2 or JES2CIxx based on the JOBDEF INTERPRET value. It would be beneficial to have it be the job name, as it is described in the documentation.
over 5 years ago in z/OS / JES2 2 Delivered

add the jobname to the jes2 notification email

The NOTIFY statement email received uses a subject line of "z/OS job event notification" which makes multiple emails all look the same for the most part. Why not add the jobname to the subject line?
over 4 years ago in z/OS / JES2 1 Delivered

Allow symbolic substitution in the JES2 JOBDEF NFY_SUBJECT parameter

In the new JES2 2.3 NFY_SUBJECT parameter in JES2 parms, the 'string' cannot contain symbols such as &SYSJOBNM. Please provide that function ASAP so our JOB notification e-mails can have meaningful Subject lines, such as 'job name ended with n...
over 4 years ago in z/OS / JES2 2 Delivered

Need a DISPLAY command for PROTECTED output and CANCEL of only PROTECTED output

I'd like to know how much PROTECTED output is on my SPOOL but there is no command to display it by that status. If I check BPXAS or ASCHINT status I see some PROT and some that are not. How much PROT do I have altogether? Can I cancel "only" PROT ...
almost 8 years ago in z/OS / JES2 1 Delivered

JES2 performance problem for duplicated name JOBS

Santander Bank depends heavily for their daily processing on submitting duplicated name JOBS in hundreds and sometimes thousands while communicating with their external customers or what they call CORPORATE CONNECTIONS. JES2 performance needs to b...
over 6 years ago in z/OS / JES2 1 Delivered

Reduce JES2 ePVT space requirement

We've recently upgraded to zOS 2.3, and JES2 now requires a large amount of ePVT storage. On z/OS V2.1, we must use 1200MB of ECSA for our IMS environment.Therefore, we want the JES2 ePVT space to be the same as V2.1 in order to upgrade to z / OS ...
over 4 years ago in z/OS / JES2 5 Delivered

Parameter to force batch execution on same LPAR as JCL conversion

With z/OS 2.1, a job class has the option now of honoring the member systems of a scheduling environment to dictate where to run JCL conversion as well as execution. However, if this scheduling environment has multiple available member LPARs, JCL ...
over 8 years ago in z/OS / JES2 2 Delivered