Management Summary of Unique IOF Features

• Quick, easy access to the information you need
  • Selection menus to go directly where you need to go
  • Automated analysis of large production jobs

• Built-in report and spool management applications
  • Automated job archiving and retrieval
  • Sophisticated external writer
  • Flexible spool cleanup utility

• Easy addition of custom report and JES2 management applications
  • Simple Rexx interface to read and update JES2 information
  • New applications easily built from included samples

• World class technical support
  • Direct access to experienced personnel
  • Web access to maintenance, bulletin board, and new releases

Detailed List of Unique IOF Features

• Interface menus in addition to SDSF-like command interface
  • Much easier for new users
  • Helpful for seldom used functions

• Full-function display containing all jobs submitted by user
  • Single screen view of all important info for all job types
  • Easy to deal with different job types

• Detailed job analysis display
  • Automatic return code summary
  • Over-typeable menu of sysout data sets

• Job Archival and Retrieval
  • Periodic and panic offloads
  • Automatic offload when spool is saturated
  • Full-screen interface to retrieve offloaded jobs

• Spool utilization reporting and control utilities
  • Produce a report of current spool utilization
  • Optionally purge old output
  • Flexible options for output purge selection

• Flexible external writer
  • Many options for selecting which output to copy
  • Optionally leave output on spool after copy

• Flexible copying of sysout data to an external data set
  • Complete menu interface available for specifying target
  • Easy to select exactly how much to copy
  • Copy whole jobs, groups or data sets, or a few lines

• IOF server on a remote machine
  • Perform any IOF
  • Status and browse of remote jobs
  • Control remote printers
  • Remote console
  • Connects to any remote machine using APPC
    • Other machines in the sysplex
    • Any distant machine connected via VTAM

• Detail device display for any specific JES2 device
  • Single display showing all information for each device
  • Shows information commands valid for that type of device

• Panel showing why output will not print
  • Immediately diagnose forms, class, size, etc. print problems
  • Separate display for each printer that could select the output

• Display output queue for a printer
  • Nest to output display from the printer display
  • Optionally display only output that is ready to print

• Significant event index for the active system log and operlog
  • Two level index of important system events
  • Installation decides which events are indexed

• Indexed SYSLOG and OPERLOG
  • Time-of-day index
  • Index of other important log events

• SYSLOG and OPERLOG archival facility
  • Archive to online or offline storage
  • Full-screen selection panel for browsing archived logs

• Flexible selection options for output
  • Select list of output groups based on age
  • Select list of output groups based on size
  • Exclude command to further refine list

• Rexx Support
  • Establish an IOF Rexx environment
  • Access JES2 data with Rexx execs
  • Perform all IOF functions in Rexx execs
  • Not dependent on screen display formats

• Powerful security features
  • Interfaces for RACF, ACF2 and Top Secret
  • Extremely flexible attribute comparisons available
  • Full-screen interface for security maintenance

Summary