You can allow users to submit and process batch jobs with the TSO/E SUBMIT, OUTPUT, STATUS, and CANCEL commands. By default, users cannot use these commands. Because TSO/E jobs are submitted randomly, they may interfere with other batch jobs. For this reason, you may want to grant only the users who must submit and process batch jobs access to the SUBMIT, OUTPUT, STATUS, and CANCEL commands. For example, you may want to keep users whose primary job involves on-line data entry from submitting batch jobs and processing the output.

You grant users access to the SUBMIT, OUTPUT, STATUS, and CANCEL commands when you add them to TSO/E by using either the ACCOUNT command or the RACF® RDEFINE and PERMIT commands. You can only allow a user to use all, or none, of these commands.

For more information about using the ACCOUNT command to restrict the use of the SUBMIT, OUTPUT, STATUS, and CANCEL commands, see . For more information about using RACF commands, see .

To further control the use of these commands, use TSO/E, JES2, and JES3 installation exits as described in Customizing the SUBMIT command and job output processing. For example, you can use the TSO/E OUTPUT, STATUS, and CANCEL command exit to restrict the jobs for which a user can obtain status.