Unable to Delete from SDSF Held Jobs Queue from JES Explorer

Problem:-

Customer was getting the following error $CJOBXXX COMMAND INVALID when deleting jobs through Enterprise Developer Remote Systems - JES Explorer.

Solution:-

This issue can be caused by not using the default ‘$’ character for the JES Console commands.

Mainframe Access will take the received JES command string from the Enterprise Developer client, translate it to EBCDIC, and then sets the first character to the default ‘$’.

The JES console command character is set by the CONCHAR parameter in xxx.PARMLIB(JES2PARM).

The problem will happen if the CONCHAR is set in their JES2PARM to for example

‘CONCHAR=# ‘

Mainframe Access now supports a new configuration parameter ‘JES_CONCHAR’ for mainframe installations that do not use the default '$' character for JES console commands.