vanguard administrator little known features (by me)

Vanguard Administrator

Little Known Features(by me)

Contents

Data Set Reports

Roll Your Own Vanguard Batch

Multiple Reports

Quick Gen VMail– <email>– CSV

Subject

EMAILATTACHNAME

Data Set Report

Access Permission – Option 4 (Access Lists) only– Look for anybody who has above READ access– Best useful in batch

User/Group Access– Option 3 or 4 (Access Lists) only– Look for userids on access lists

SECLABEL / Level (recommended by Bob Hansen)– Display ‘special’ datasets– Use of Level to designate ‘special’ dataset profile – APF

Access Permission

Access Permission

Extended Access List Reports

Option 7 of Data Set Reports

Just like Option 4 but enters Quickgen automatically

Extended Access List Reports

QuickGen by Default

RYO Batch

Batch/On-line: B

Generates Batch JCL

Specify B Browse

Split screen and edit file for Vanguard jobs

Edit new member and copy Vanguard JCL

Quick Gen statements also found in VSQGSVxx DD statement (ISRDDN)

Multiple Reports

Roll-Your-Own Batch

PRNT file – Pre-defined Dataset

DISP=MOD

Add additional report statements to SYSIN DD statement

Multiple Reports - Example

//SYSIN DD *REPORT(CICS SEGMENT OPERID(150)REPORT(END)REPORT(CICS SEGMENT)OPERID(392)REPORT(END)

VMAIL

Option to e-mail report directly to end userSMTPUpdate EMAILOPT member in VANOPTS – JES2 node but default probably okayUpdate EMAILLST – One or more e-mail addressesExample– DISTLIST=Jeff – jeffrey_benson@glic.com

QuickGen E-Mail / CSV Example

//VSSQGIN DD *

<EMAIL VMAIL=YES FORMAT=TXT>

<SUBJECT>Important Report

</EMAIL>

<CSV>

&USERID;&USERNAME;&LOGPROC

</CSV>

VMAIL Example

//VMAIL DD *TO(- Jeff- ) SUBJECT(TSO SUMMARY) FROM(HAPTJCB@BETH) ::EMAILATTACHNAME(TSO.SUMMARY)

VMAIL Example

This example will produce 2 e-mailsOne is the report in Vanguard standard format report.One is the report in CSV format.Both show FROM parameter as senderBoth File Names from //VMAIL EMAILATTACHNAME () Standard Report Subject from //SYSIN REPORT() CSV Report Subject from <email> <subject>

Alternate E-MAIL CSV Example//VSSQGIN DD * <email vmail=no format=txt> <to> jeffrey_benson@glic.com </to> <subject>Important Report <text> TSO Summary Report CSV </text> </email> <csv> &USERID;&USERNAME;&LOGPROC </csv>

Alternate E-Mail Example

Same are previous except attachment name

QuickGen.txt

Currently no way to change

VMAIL Example – CSV Report

V-MAIL Example - Standard Report

Related Maintenance

VS48197 (Q110)

Administrator's User Guide was updated to document the usage of the 'vmail' parameter in the QuickGen Tag Language section in Appendix A. The 'vmail' parameter will allow the QuickGen email To, From and Subject values to be obtained from the standard VMAIL parameters specified for the job. Note:this only applies to batch QuickGen processing.

More Maintenance

VS48200 (Q110)

Administrator User Guide has been updated to include the new batch Dataset report, DATASET ACCESS QUICKGEN REPORTS, which provide ad hoc and custom reporting capabilities via QuickGen Custom report feature.