VSE/POWER 8.3

Output Limitation Facility

The opportunity for cancellation of the job whose output reached a prescribed limit is introduced. Limitation is applicable to LST and PUN spooling both to disk and to tape. Limitation is defined by the parameter RBF which means 'Records Before Flush'. For details refer to Limiting Job Output.

Restart PNET Passive TCP/IP Connection

When a TCP/IP connection between two nodes is to be established, a passive TCP/IP connection must be active on at least one of these nodes. If severe errors occur for this passive connection, the passive TCP/IP connection is stopped and the following message is issued:

1RTYI TCP/IP: NEW CONNECTION REQUESTS FROM REMOTE NODES CAN NO LONGER BE PROCESSED

Using the command PSTART TCPIP,PASSIVE, you can now restart the passive TCP/IP connection without stopping and restarting all TCP/IP connections and the TCP/IP interface itself.

Refer to Format 14: Restarting PNET Passive TCP/IP Connection.

CQNUM Operand of PDISPLAY Command

The PDISPLAY command (formats 1 and 2) now supports the CQNUM operand which is used to address a queue entry by its internal queue number. Refer to PDISPLAY: Displaying VSE/POWER Status.

Message Queue Enlarged for New GCM Service

A new fixed format output generation message is now available along with the existing job completion and generation messages. In order to meet the increased number of potentially issued fixed format messages, the default queue size of fixed format message has been increased from 20 to 50, and its maximal value - from 99 to 255. To reflect these changes, the JCMQ operand of the SET autostart statement now supports three positions instead of two. Refer to Format of the Command.

Improvement for CSYSID Operand

In earlier releases the CSYSID operand could only address queue entries belonging to a specific system. Now with CSYSID=N you can address all queue entries which do not belong to a specific system. CSYSID=N is available for PDISPLAY and all queue manipulation commands. See a description of CSYSID operand in the following commands:

in the PALTER command CSYSID=current_system_id|N,
in the PDELETE command CSYSID=current_system_id|N,
in the PDISPLAY command CSYSID=current_system_id|N,
in the PHOLD command CSYSID=current_system_id|N,
in the PRELEASE command CSYSID=current_system_id|N.

Display Date and Time of a Job Start

The PDISPLAY command (format 8) now supports the TIME operand which is used to display the start date and time of a job or jobs running in a specified partition or partitions. Refer to Format 8: Displaying Activated Task Status.

Directing Punch Output to VSE/AF Sublibrary Member

A new format 3 of the * $$ PUN JECL statement provides a possibility for redirecting punch output to a VSE/AF sublibrary member. Refer to Format 3: Directing Punch Output to VSE/AF Sublibrary Member.