Release 7.05

March 31, 2007 For a printable version of Release 7.05 highlights select this pdf.

Product Distribution Media

New eventACTION and ussACTION releases can now be ordered on CD as well as on the traditional 3480 media. If you choose to receive the products on CD, the unloaded distribution data sets will be on the same CD as the documentation for the products. Please specify your choice of distribution media when ordering the products.

Planning & Installation Guide

The Planning & Installation Guide has been updated to add a chapter to describe the install procedures from the product distribution media either CD or 3480 tape. In addition, we have highlighted the Cross Product Dependencies chapter since there are some z/OS features that may impact eventACTION startup.
We appreciate any feedback on these updates.

FDR Interface

The eventACTION FDR interface, previously available as a Beta, is now generally available. The interface provides the ability to: track volume level changes; and track and control data set level changes made using the FDR, FDRDSF, FDRABR and FDRCOPY programs. Refer to the eventACTION Planning & Installation Guide for details.

GLOBAL Automatic Scheduling Options

The region size that is specified on the Reporting options for automatic scheduling (Option R under the Automatic Scheduling Parameters within the Global Options) has been changed so that a value suffixed with an M or a K may be specified to indicate Megabytes or Kilobytes respectively.
Previous versions limited a megabyte value to 999 but now it can be as high as 2047M in accordance with IBM's JCL specifications. The field has been extended to eight characters to accomodate values of 0M to 2047M or 0K to 2096128K. The default value is 0M. If omitted, the M or K will be appended automatically according to the numerical value specified; refer to the help panel for details.

Reference Tracking

Prior to 7.05, when the execution of a module is rejected by PXC, RT will continue to record a reference count if the module is fetched from a library defined to RT. A new parmlib MZCPRMxx option, RT_REJ_BY_PXC has now been added. If this option is set to NO (RT_REJ_BY_PXC=NO) then RT will not record a reference if the execution of a module is rejected by PXC.

Product Execution Control (PXC)

Now you can specify if the Name is PGM or PROC or CLIST. When you select a PXC entry, you will have the three choices, you can specify YES for all three.

REPORTS

A new report has been added to the set of report types available under ussACTION. This is the Directory and File Option Summary. It summaries the options set at each of the change tracking levels under USS, i.e. Global Dataset Options, OID options, Directory options and File options.

In eventACTION, a new set of Audit reports are now available.

Global Parms
Excludes Table
Blackout Table
Global Dataset Options
OID Options
Dataset Options
Member Overrides
User Group
Command Tracking

Change Request Selection Template

The Change Request selection template (type CR) has been updated to add additional date options and the date options have been moved to the second panel. Now you can specify Since Last Scheduled Job (available only in batch) and Over Previous Days in addition to date range.

Change Distribution

Option for "Use LULU" at dataset level is removed. If you specify YES for this option for Default Parms, then LULU will be used for all transmissions. This means that you cannot mix Transmit Jobs and LULU.

Compare Utility (Online)

A new Display Option has been added on the main Compare Utility panel to allow or prevent the issuing of warning messages. The new option is called "Warning Messages" and accepts "YES" to see the warning messages as have always been produced or "NO" to prevent them from being issued.

ussACTION

Support has been added to handle 64 bit callers for USS callable services (OPEN, CLOSE, CHMOD, CHOWN, UNLINK).

External Logging

Subtype 12 has been added to record changes to "Command Tracking & Control" definitions.

Change Requests

Now you cannot REINIT a Change Request against which at least one change was made.

Command Tracking

Now you can specify a User Group name for notifying users when a Command is issued. NOTE: Currently you can provide up to four userids on the "Options for Command" panel. The messages are sent using email. Please add userids to User Group. Also, make sure the userid(s) are added using Command UL from Primary and Email addresses are provided for each user.