Is it an option to ask how they managed this in the source site?

- KB

‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐
On Thursday, November 5, 2020 10:51 AM, Gadi Ben-Avi <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Everone.
> Thanks for responding.
>
> We 'purchased' a system from another site.
> The jobs that came with the system do not have a CLASS parameter specified.
> They do have specific values in the accounting fields that are supposed to 
> assign the job to specific classes.
> I assume they had an exit that did all of this.
>
> Up until now, all of the jobs ran in the same class, with the same service 
> class.
> I've been asked to assign a lower service class to jobs that have a specific 
> (not specified as yet) value in the accounting data.
>
> The simplest way would have been to tell the job owners to code a CLASS 
> parameter on the JOB card, but they say that that is too much work.
>
> I looked at doing this using WLM definitions.
> It works if the value in the accounting data is in the first 8 bytes.
> Otherwise, it get complicated to write, debug, and read.
>
> I read about JES2 Policies, so I looked it up in the documentation.
>
> Gadi
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [email protected] On Behalf Of 
> Jesse 1 Robinson
> Sent: Wednesday, November 4, 2020 10:05 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: JES2 Policies
>
> In a previous life at the late great Security Pacific, we an elaborate scheme 
> based on account numbers. Even the job name was generated from account 
> number. To control all this, we had a VSAM file containing all valid account 
> numbers along with indications of who could submit jobs with each number. An 
> array of JES2 and SMF exits were employed to make all this work. At the end 
> of the year, account numbers were used for chargeback to respective 
> departments for resource usage.
>
> There is no way in h*ll I would recommend this complex scheme for a modern 
> shop. But yes, with enough time and $$, it can be done.
>
> .
> .
> J.O.Skip Robinson
> Southern California Edison Company
> Electric Dragon Team Paddler
> SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager
> 323-715-0595 Mobile
> 626-543-6132 Office ⇐=== NEW
> [email protected]
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [email protected] On Behalf Of 
> Lizette Koehler
> Sent: Wednesday, November 4, 2020 10:53 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: (External):Re: JES2 Policies
>
> *** EXTERNAL EMAIL - Use caution when opening links or attachments ***
>
> Initial Request:
> The current goal is to change a job's class or service class depending on 
> certain values in the accounting information.
>
> It also seems to me that a JCL tool, Like JCLPLUS could put rules into JCL 
> Scanning and force users to adhere to a standard. But that would mean you 
> have a Source management system that is used to deploy Jobs to various 
> systems.
>
> It could have rules that say, if Account Code is this, then the job should 
> have Service Class STCLOW and CLASS X
>
> Lizette
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [email protected] On Behalf Of 
> Allan Staller
> Sent: Wednesday, November 4, 2020 11:35 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: JES2 Policies
>
> Wouldn't RACF jobclass controls be more appropriate?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [email protected] On Behalf Of Joe 
> Monk
> Sent: Wednesday, November 4, 2020 10:31 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: JES2 Policies
>
> [CAUTION: This Email is from outside the Organization. Unless you trust the 
> sender, Don’t click links or open attachments as it may be a Phishing email, 
> which can steal your Information and compromise your Computer.]
>
> Radoslaw,
>
> I think what the OP is really saying is that certain accounts should be 
> restricted from certain jobclasses i.e. DEV cant use PROD jobclasses. So, if 
> they code a CLASS=X, but the account info says that they dont have access to 
> CLASS=X, then dump the job.
>
> OP: This has been around a long time, and is very mature...
>
> Joe
>
> On Wed, Nov 4, 2020 at 8:20 AM R.S. [email protected] wrote:
>
> > W dniu 04.11.2020 o 13:10, Gadi Ben-Avi pisze:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > > I've started looking into JES2 Policies.
> > > The current goal is to change a job's class or service class
> > > depending
> > > on certain values in the accounting information.
> > >
> > > > From reading the manual, it seems that this is possible.
> > >
> > > Has anyone done something like this?
> > > Is there a way to debug these policies?
> > > Is this feature mature enough to use?
> >
> > I dare to disagree ...with your goal. More precisely I disagree with
> > your presentation of the goal.
> > Does it really have to depend on account information? Why?
> > That means user has to code something in the jobcard, in the first
> > positional. So he may code CLASS= keyword as well, can't he?
> > Maybe your accnt infor is already somehowe controlled (my guess, lack
> > of information). However jobclass can be RACF-controlled.
> > And this is quite mature way to control job classes and (indirectly)
> > service classes.
> > --
> > Radoslaw Skorupka
> > Lodz, Poland
>
> --
>
> For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to 
> [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions,
> send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

----------------------------------------------------------------------
For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions,
send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Reply via email to