On Tue, 21 Feb 2017 15:13:32 -0600, Tom Marchant wrote:
>Did anyone notice the z/OS 2.3 preview announcement today?
>http://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/ShowDoc.wss?docURL=/common/ssi/rep_ca/5/897/ENUS217-085/index.html&request_locale=en
>
Where I see:
o New support is added to SAF/RACF to convert a user ID to an email address
and vice versa.
Will there be an OMVS SYSCALL interface to this, or will the OMVS user be
required to issue SAF calls? The obvious technique would be to enhance
getpwuid(), but IBM often eschews obvious enhancements.
There's a related Internet FAQ. Common answers are, "No." and "Read
~user/.forward".
o JES2 job notification is enhanced to allow the specification of email in
addition
to the existing NOTIFY support via local send.
Has the JCL syntax for this been announced? The obvious enhancement would be:
NOTIFY=<mailtourl> (See RFC 1738, RFC 2822.)
but IBM often eschews obvious enhancements.
o Ambiguity: GIL@MVS might be either an email address or a TSO userID.
o The local part is case-sensitive and may contain special characters.
Apostrophes should mostly take care of this.
o EBCDIC code pages rear their ugly heads. I hate EBCDIC!
-- gil
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