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Tracking changes to your Job Schedule (WRKJOBSCDE)

Last week I received an urgent call from a customer. Someone had added an entry to the i/OS job scheduler (WRKJOBSCDE) that caused all user profiles to be *DISABLED after ONE day of inactivity. Obviously, several user profiles became disabled. T...

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What is *JOBCTL Special Authority? All my users seem to have it.

*JOBCTL is Job Control special authority. When it comes to controlling jobs on the system, each user has the ability to control their own jobs. I can hold, release, change and even cancel my own jobs. But, *JOBCTL provides the capability to control t...

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CHKPTFSTS (Check PTF Status) - Enhanced for performance

A while ago I presented the Check PTF Status (CHKPTFSTS) command which allows you to check the current PTF inventory. The command reads through all installed products and, for each product runs through the list of PTFs and checks every PTF agains...

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