The latest enhancements made to TAS are described below. The amendments are listed in inverse chronological order, beginning with the latest amendment.

26.01.2004 Action Code CANC for cancelling Calendar jobs.

20.12.2002 Command PORT to display all open ports on the own host together with the respective server programs, as well as the connected partner systems. The CLS Action Code can also be used to deactivate the the server application associated with the port. Additionally, a ping can be issued to the individual communication partners.

Command PORT (open TCP/IP Socket Ports)

User Option PORT

24.10.2000 Various extensions to the VN administration components.

New commands: VMDISK (includes VMPDT F=DISK,VSN=Y),

VMTAPE (VMPDT F=TAPE,VSN=Y) and VMPRINT (VMPDT F=PRINT).

In VMMSG and OMSG screens the Action Code .? will display the message in its entirety and allows longer input than 4 bytes.

VMPDT when printing: Action Code SPN will not issue an SD DEV command to the system to which the printer is attached.

New Action Code PRxxx to initiate printing: the suffix xxx can be used as parameters for various SD print commands.

For a full description, see the sample file X/VMCONFIG in the CFS.S.LMSLIB library.

06.04.2000 Central VM administration of multiple monitor systems, together with the associated guest systems in a single screen (VMINF, VMPDT, VMMSG).

Prerequisite: All monitor and guest systems are accessible from the current system via BCAM. The definition of the monitor systems to be administered requires an additional file, CFS.VMINDEX, which contains the names of the VMCONFIG files of the individual monitor systems.

Command VMPDT (VM device management)

Command VMINF (VM administration)

Command VMMSG (open messages)

Command VMSAVE (save VM parameters)

02.04.2000 Command PING ipaddr in the Command field of each TAS screen.

Full information (Return with K3)

08.03.2000 Display open messages from all VM2000 guest systems.

VMPDT lists with device type and current VSN of the disks/tape

VMSAVE files with device type and VSN of the disk as remarks.

Command VMMSG (open messages)

Command VMPDT (VM device management)

Command VMSAVE (save VM parameters)

06.07.1999 Device Management and Administration for VM2000

Command VMINF (VM administration)

Command VMPDT (VM device management)

Command VMSAVE (save VM parameters)

01.06.1999 MRS Screen: various Action Codes OPTx for online reorganisation of pubsets.

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19.01.1999 User Option PROG: The parameter CMD=Y will display the last command to have been executed for tasks which do not have a program loaded.

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18.01.1999 Command APPL, Parameter V=Y: The virtual hosts on which the applications are running will be displayed. The columns BYTES-IN and BYTES-OUT will be omitted from the APPL list.

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13.07.1998 The User Option MODULE will select all those tasks which have loaded a specified module or entry.

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23.06.1998 Command EXPL (Export List): A memory area displayed by means of a DISP command can be exported to a List file.

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29.04.1998 Command SYSACT: parameter VAR=Y. CFS variables with the values from the SYSACT screen will be created. This simplifies the evaluation of the values in procedures.

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23.04.1998 User-defined Action Codes %act.

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02.02.1998 Variable Action ONXTYPE, Command EXPC displays lists on the console: specifying a routing code, mnemonic code or access name of a console allows the target for the output to be accurately specified.

Full Information:

Variable Action ONXTYPE

Command EXPC

10.03.1998 Command TASK tsn in the SYSACT screen.

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10.03.1998 Action Code T for modifying the CPU time limit for dialog and batch tasks.

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26.02.1998 CFS commands to control Connections can now also be entered from the Command field of all TAS screens: n/OCn/CCn/DCn/CD.

In addition, HELGA can be called as a subprogram (HELGA command).

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09.02.1998 Extension of the DISP command to include the parameter %xxx: display a section of memory from a system table

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09.02.1998 Additional fields for displaying system tables using the SHOW command, SHOW %xxx or the Action Code %xx: %TET, %SVMT.

09.02.1998 Additional options for the PAR command.

PAR NAMES=START|END ,SHOW=PHYS|SYM.

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09.02.1998 User Option ACCNB: Account number of the userid under which the task is logged.

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16.01.1998 User Option MAXCPU: maximum CPU time specified initially, or the amount of time remaining for the task.

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12.01.1998 User Option PROC: Front End Processor to which the terminal is attached.

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25.08.1997 Pubset/MRS Administration/Free Space Analysis for a PVS or individual volume.

MRS command with Action Codes VOL and FREE, as well as Action Code FIL in the FREE screen.

MRS Command

19.08.1997 Display Action Code for Tasks: The SETSW command can also be used to modify the task switch of the other task.

Full Information (Return with K3)

08.08.1997 User Option Q#: The Queue number and the Unpend Code of the task will be displayed.

User Option PCOUNT: The Program Counter of the current PCB or the last PCB in TU (Task Unprivileged) state will be displayed for all tasks.

User Option Q#

User Option PCOUNT

07.08.1997 User Option PCOUNT: The Program Counter of the current PCB or the last PCB in TU (Task Unprivileged) state will be displayed for all tasks.

Full Information

x06.08.1997 PAR Command: internal TAS operational parameters can be modified.

PAR SYSLINE=N will suppress the Task Summary normally displayed in the system line, when a new selection is made. PAR STATION=V will display the virtual terminal name in the STATION and PROC columns for CFS connections.

Full Information

19.03.1997 FEP Command: New Action Code GEN for individual processors. The name and address fields of the processors can be modified on-screen. The modifications will be applied immediately.

New Action Codes PING/SHOW/TRACE for TCP/IP processors.

Full Information (GEN)

(PING/TRACE/SHOW)

27.01.1997 APPL Command: New Parameter INF=ATTR|STAT. INF=ATTR will display the attributes of the application (e.g. PREDEF). INF=STAT will display all connected stations and the respective processors of all applications.

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12.12.1996 BCMAP Command: The BCMAP assignment saved with a BCMAP FUNCT=SAVE,FILE=file console command will be output in text to a RUN file or to a BS2000 DO procedure.

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18.07.1996 LRJ Command. By default, the ENTER commands no longer contain REMARK statements. In addition, for jobs which are created as elements in a PLAM library, the library and element name will be used in the ENTER command. Previously the internally-generated BS2000 name was used.

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05.05.1996 If TAS in has been started from a non-TSOS userid (TASHT), BS2000 commands can be executed under TSOS by entering :cmd . The user will receive the SYSOUT information for the command. A prerequisite for this is that the system administrator has started the CFSHT task in addition to the TASHT task.

02.05.1996 The PUBSP and PRIVSP commands can be entered from the command field of any screen.

27.03.1996 OPNnn Action Code: The open files associated with a task, together with the number of IO's used in nn seconds will be displayed.

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03.01.1996 UTM Command (List all UTM applications): Action Codes TAC and LTERM. Display screen for UTM applications: Commands TAC and LTERM will display a list of all TAC's and LTERM's associated with the application.

Full Information:

Command TAC

Command LTERM