Release 7.08

January 30, 2009 (Special Edition) For a printable version of Release 7.08 highlights select this pdf.

Background - Batch JCL Submission

Added support for System Symbol substitution in JCL prior to submitting a background task. All background tasks are supported (batch, LUB, reports, ELI).

Reports

A number of new reports have been added:

Miscellaneous - Controls Excluded Report
This report contains the a list of datasets for which changes have been allowed by Change Controls because of the Exclude options specified.

Administration - System Options Reports
There are 11 new reports, each of these reports will provide the full list of system parameters that are currently defined when the report is produced.

Userids
User groups
Dataset Option Summary
Command Control
Excludes
Reference Tracking
Reference Tracking by Member
Reference Tracking by Dataset
USS Excludes
USS Directory/file options
USS Reference Tracking

Reference Tracking Information Report - Any Reference
This report will provide list of referenced datasets that have been defined to the RT/RTM/RTDS in eventACTION.

Change Requests

When a change request is deleted, a record is written to the DBLOG, showing the change request ID and the userid of the user who deleted it, along with the date and time. A job is provided in prefix.CNTL(CREQDEL) to select and print the records from DBLOG.

USS Reference Tracking by Filename

A new feature allows Filenames to be specified for Reference Tracking.

Each reference to the file will be recorded by User-ID, Jobname, SMF, Type (TSO, USS, ...) and Directory. A count is maintained along with the most recent reference date. The filename does not have to be defined to USS/RT or USS/CT (option O).

This new feature is only available if ussACTION is started with USS#.

To use this feature, add the following statement to the eventACTION parmlib member:

USSRTF=YES

Select option RTF from the ussACTION main panel to add filenames to RTF.

ussACTION start options:

Currently ussACTION can be started with either one of the following eventACTION parmlib statements:

USSSTART=USS

USSSTART=USS+

USSSTART=USS#

USS and USS+ can also be specified via PARM= in the MZCA STC procedure.

Different sets of hooks are used in USS, USS+ and USS# to achieve essentially the same results. As of this release, all ussACTION users are encouraged to start ussACTION with USS#. No migration actions are necessary.

Both USS and USS+ will continue to be supported, although future new enhancements such as Reference Tracking by Filename (RTF) may only be available in USS#.

Reference track tape datasets:

The RTDS feature has been enhanced to track tape datasets. To enable this feature, simply add the tape dataset name to RTDS with no volser and specify PS for 'DS Types'.

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