Academic Mainframe Upgrade News

The Academic mainframe systems upgrade begun last spring is complete. MVS/SP has been replaced with MVS/ESA. VM/CMS has been upgraded to VM/ESA version 2.1.0 and CMS version 12. As a result of the MVS upgrade, a small change is required on all MVS JCL JOB statements used to submit batch jobs from CMS. A USER parameter must be added somewhere on the JOB statement. For example, the following JOB statement...

//IDNNPRGM JOB (IDNN,:05,1),myname,PASSWORD=secret

....would need to be rewritten as follows:

//IDNNPRGM JOB (IDNN,:05,1),myname,PASSWORD=secret,USER=IDNN

The ID following "USER=" should be the same as your MVS batch User-ID. If there is not enough room to include all information on one line, the JOB statement can be split into two lines:

//IDNNPRGM JOB (IDNN,:05,1),myname,

// PASSWORD=secret,USER=IDNN

Note that the first line of the statement ends with a comma and that there is at least one space following the two slashes on the second line of the statement.

If you have any questions about the Academic Mainframe upgrade, you can contact Computing Center Support Services at 565-2324 and ask to speak to an Academic Mainframe consultant.

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