MCSMON Keyword—System Event Monitoring

Valid on z/OS.

Use the MCSMON keyword to specify how selected system events are monitored. The IBM equivalent to this field is MONITOR.

This keyword has the following format:

TSS ADDTO(acid) MCSMON(JOBNAMES|JOBNAMES‑T|SESS|SESS‑T|STATUS)

Capacity of list: One keyword per ACID
JOBNAMES: Specifies that each jobname is displayed when the job starts and ends. Unit record allocation is displayed when the job starts. If a job abends, the jobname will appear in a diagnostic message.
JOBNAMES‑T: Specifies that the time is displayed with the jobname. The time appears in hh:mm:ss. format.
SESS: Specifies that the user identifier for each time—sharing terminal is displayed when the session starts and ends. If a session abends, the user identifier will appear in a diagnostic message.
SESS‑T: Specifies that the time is displayed with the user identifier. The time appears in hh:mm:ss format.
STATUS: Specifies that the data set names and volume serial numbers of data sets with dispositions of KEEP, CATG, and UNCATLG are displayed whenever they are freed.

All MCS resources must be added to a User Record and cannot be added to a Profile or to the ALL Record.

This keyword is used with:

This example specifies the display of jobs and the time they begin and end:

TSS ADDTO(acid) MCSMON(JOBNAMES)