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TIP: TSO REQUIRES JOBNAME AND MVS ACCOUNT NUMBER ON THE JOB CARD (4/27/98)

TSO requires a job name and an MVS account number on the job card.

The job name follows the // on the first line of the jobcard as shown on the following example in the edit panel.

------------------------------------------------------------------------------- EDIT XXXXX.PRIVATE.LIB(ELMER) - 01.00 Columns 00001 00072 Command ===> Scroll ===> PAGE ****** ***************************** Top of Data ****************************** 000001 //XXXXXN JOB (NNNNNNN,366G),'USERNAME ',MSGCLASS=Q

000001 //XXXXXN JOB (NNNNNNN,366G),'USERNAME ',MSGCLASS=Q

The job name //XXXXXN is your 5 character userid plus a number. For example:

//USRMK2

The MVS account number must be enclosed in the parenthesis area after the word JOB. For example: JOB (1234567,366G)

The MVS account number is a unique 7 digit number assigned to your account. This number can be found on the ISPF Primary Option Menu on the right side following MVS acct. : NNNNNNN as shown below.

ISPF Primary Option Menu Option ===> 0 Settings Terminal and user parameters User ID . : XXXXX 1 View Display source data or listings Time. . . : 10:49 2 Edit Create or change source data Terminal. : 3278 3 Utilities Perform utility functions Screen. . : 1 4 Foreground Interactive language processing Language. : ENGLISH 5 Batch Submit job for language processing Appl ID . : ISP 6 Command Enter TSO or Workstation commands TSO logon : TSOACCNT 7 Dialog Test Perform dialog testing TSO prefix: XXXXX 8 LM Facility Library administrator functions System ID : PROD 9 IBM Products IBM program development products MVS acct. : NNNNNNN 10 SCLM SW Configuration Library Manager Release . : ISPF 4.1 I IOF Interactive Output Facility