JESINTERFACELEVEL for FTP

2009-08-13 Thread Lizette Koehler
I have a user requesting we change our JESINTERFACELEVEL from 1 to 2. Since I am not familiar with this function, I am z/OS V1.9 - is this a good setting? Or should it be left at 1? I have read the fine manual and it seems to indicate this will allow a user to retieve and job based on

Re: JESINTERFACELEVEL for FTP

2009-08-13 Thread Bob Shannon
If you use RACF to control SDSF access then 2 should work fine. If you use ISFPARMS and don't have RACF set up to control spool access then 1 is probably what you want. We use 2, but since we're a development shop we don't care who accesses what. Bob Shannon Rocket Software

Re: JESINTERFACELEVEL for FTP

2009-08-13 Thread Kirk Wolf
JESINTERFACELEVEL=2 allows users to retrieve and list jobs based on SAF calls to the same resource/class names used by SDSF. So, if you use SAF/RACF to control SDSF and you allow these users to use SDSF, then you should be OK with letting them use FTP with JESINTERFACELEVEL=2. JESINTERFACELEVEL

Re: JESINTERFACELEVEL for FTP

2009-08-13 Thread Lizette Koehler
to control SDSF and you allow these users to use SDSF, then you should be OK with letting them use FTP with JESINTERFACELEVEL=2. JESINTERFACELEVEL=1 is not too useful in other ways, as it only provides limited information and limited functionality for submitting, getting status, and downloading JES

Re: JESINTERFACELEVEL for FTP

2009-08-13 Thread Mark Zelden
On Thu, 13 Aug 2009 12:59:55 -0400, Lizette Koehler stars...@mindspring.com wrote: I have a user requesting we change our JESINTERFACELEVEL from 1 to 2. Since I am not familiar with this function, I am z/OS V1.9 - is this a good setting? Or should it be left at 1? I have read the fine manual

Re: JESINTERFACELEVEL for FTP

2009-08-13 Thread Mark Zelden
On Thu, 13 Aug 2009 13:24:43 -0500, Mark Zelden mark.zel...@zurichna.com wrote: Are there any other issues or impacts to changing this? One word. SAF. If you have SAF rules set up for SDSF, then changing is probably easy and provides functionality. If you don't (you use ISFPARMS / ISFPRMxx)