Summary of changes for z/OS Version 2 Release 2 (V2R2) as updated March 2016
The following changes are made for z/OS® V2R2 as updated March 2016.
New
- A new value, HSFSRV00, was added to the PPT table. See Program properties table (PPT).
- Two new parameters, MAXTSOSERVERS and TIMEINT, were added to the AXRxx parmlib member. See Statements and parameters for AXRxx.
- A new optional parameter, BUFFERMONITOR, was added to the BPXPRMxx parmlib member. See Statements and parameters for BPXPRMxx.
Changed
- Information about the SECURITY and NOSECURITY parameters was missing from the BPXPRMxx parmlib member. They have been added; see Statements and parameters for BPXPRMxx.
- Various updates were made to the CONSOLxx parmlib member.
- Information about using automation to remotely IPL the z/OS system was added. See CONSOLxx (console configuration definition). An explanation was added to the CONSOLE and DEFAULT statements that if an operator has not logged on to the console, commands are passed to the security product indicating an operator ID of *BYPASS*. See Syntax and parameters for the CONSOLE statement and Syntax and parameters for the DEFAULT statement.
- A note was added to the description of the LFAREA parameter of the IEASYSxx parmlib member to clarify that LFAREA is used for pageable 4 KB, fixed 1 MB, pageable 1 MB, and fixed 2 GB pages. See LFAREA.