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IOF Release 8E
Features and Benefits
Feature: Download data sets using new IOF Email Interface
Benefits
- Users can easily download data sets using email
- Rexx applications can easily interface to send emails or download data sets
- The email interface is supported as part of IOF
- SEND commands under IOF now have a supported email interface
- Email features can be customized and controlled using IOF options
Feature: Send detailed job status or reports using IOF Email Interface
Benefits
- SEND now uses the new supported IOF Email interface
- A batch job can email a completion notification with return codes
- A batch job can email its own reports
- Interactive users can email output from IOF display panels
- New interface menus provide access to more SEND features
- Simple commands make it easy to select sysouts for a job
- Enhanced formats provide more meaningful defaults for subject, message, and PC file name
- New formatting options give enhanced control over a job’s output on the PC
- The html output format has been significantly improved
- Any other email interface can also be supported by SEND (including XMITIP)
- Multiple ZIP interfaces can be supported by SEND
- Rexx applications can easily interface to send job output
- SEND features can be customized and controlled using IOF options
- The SEND infrastructure is now in place to easily support other output formats, like PDF
Feature: Scan the OPERLOG
Benefits
- Scan the OPERLOG for a specific system
- Scan the OPERLOG for a given time period
- Independent from normal IOF LOG function
Feature: Capture any IOF display
Benefits
- Users can create an exact copy of any IOF display
- Applications can easily package detailed screen information
- The user interface to capture a display is very simple
- A user can capture all rows and columns, not just the displayed screen
- Attribute bytes can be mapped to any desired characters
- Advanced features (for execs) can capture intricate details of display structure
- Rexx execs can gain access to low level details of screen fields
- This feature provides a basic building block for interfacing with external systems
Feature: SNAP Enhancements
Benefits
- Users and Rexx execs have significant new snap capabilities
- New shortcuts are provided for doing simple snap operations
- A customer option allows usage of a fixed target data set on the SD interface display
- Users can now specify carriage control simulation using ASCII or HTML
- Rexx execs can now:
- Use native snap features to create base 64 output for binary data
- Snap any allocated data set to the current snap target
- Use very flexible snap features to simulate carriage control
- Access many attributes of the current snap target
- Access record counts and total bytes in current snap target
- Defer disposition of a sysout target until after it is closed
Feature: Enhanced Rexx Interface Features
Benefits
- More flexible and powerful Rexx applications are now possible
- An exec can now easily check for specific allocations
- DD names can be conditionally freed if they are allocated
- The currently excluded sysouts on the IOF Job Summary can be saved and later restored
- In a batch exec, the IOF session can be terminated with a selected return code
- The IOF capture facility can provide detailed display field information for any IOF display
- Additional attributes of the current session are available
- New display fields for a job can be accessed
Feature: New IOF Installation Options in the IOF Options Library
Benefits
- New and enhanced options offer significant customization and control
- A new option allows redisplay of last data set specified on SD panel
- A new option disables new IOF feature showing steps that executed before job restart
- A new option enables attention interrupts of find commands in OPERLOG
- A new option forces inclusion of userid in SAVEINDX data set names
- Major new options can control usage of IOF email interface
- Major new options can control usage of IOF SEND capability
Feature: New attributes accessible to Rexx Execs
Benefits
- More information enables more sophisticated Rexx execs
- Execs can be invoked after snap target is opened and query snap environment
- Execs can examine the amount and structure of the data they just snapped
- DD name and data set attributes are available for current snap data set
- Record count, byte count, and maximum record size are available for current snap target
- The jobid of the current user’s session is now available
- Access control macros can now check the name of the program that created a report
Feature: New Display Fields on IOF Job Summary
Benefits
- Rexx execs can access additional information of the IOF Job Summary
- New JESDS field for a sysout indicates YES for system data sets
- New RESULT field in job information mimics RESULT field for job on Job List
- New DEST, SYSID, and NODE fields are displayed in the job information
Feature: Structural Enhancements for Future Development
Benefits
- Significant internal changes will simplify future development
- Interfacing with external environments remains the primary focus
- The CAPTURE command and its supporting code offer a concrete example
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Related Links & Downloads
- IOF Brochure PDF
- IOF: Job Archival Made Simple (JAMS) (White Paper) PDF
- IOF Release 8G
- IOF Release 8F
- IOF Release 8E
- IOF Unlocks the Power of IBM Health Checker
Additional Info
Videos
- Easy to Use IOF VIDEO
- IOF vs SDSF VIDEO
- IOF JF Command Instruction VIDEO
- ZF FIND Command Training VIDEO
- IOF Archival (JAMS) Training VIDEO
- IOF Send Training VIDEO
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