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Restart/Cleanup functionality with Stepreschk (YES) to allow more flexibility at step Restart, similiar to Stepreschk(no) with allowing DDNEVER functions

It aligns to competitive products that a client might be using today and provides them with the ability to manage the restart steps they decide to choose without the need to replace their current JCL.
2 days ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Planned for future release

allow DBOPT password to be 25 characters in length

Using 25 character passwords is a new requirement for Bank of America.
about 1 month ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 1 Planned for future release

Change the sample installation

Change all the installation sample increasing the space for each dataset creation (EQQPCS01, EQQPCS02 etc.)
2 months ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Planned for future release

Need to be able to customize TdwcGlobalSettings within the zconnector, for example, to increase the value for zosHttpTimeout to avoid timeout issues with RESTAPI calls

Having the timeout at 30,000 milliseconds (30 seconds) is causing difficulties for implementing RESTAPI. It seems to be possible to increase the timeout limit with: <?xml version="1.0"?> <tdwc> <settings> <http> <propert...
3 months ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Planned for future release

IBM Z Workload Scheduler - 'Service Now' Interface - Limitations

Currently, the IWS 'Service Now' Interface is only providing the ability to pass 3 parms / fields for Service now to use in creating an Incident ticket. These parms / fields are: IMPACT, URGENCY, and SHORTDESCR. The contents of the TEXTMEMBER stat...
2 months ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Planned for future release

Add the IP address and PORT NUMBER values to the existing message EQQHT29E

Customer is using a certificate generating/validating product which performs activity within the controller address space, and since this product is not an AGENT whose IP address and PORT NUMBER are coded in the ROUTOPTS statement, the access trig...
about 1 month ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Planned for future release

IMS Online Reorg to disregard error: Number of online IMS subsystems has changed

We are looking for an option to tell IMS ORF to disregard if the number of online subsystems has changed during job execution time. We are running a 4 way data sharing environment and planning to introduce rolling IPLs in the near future. We also ...
over 1 year ago in IMS Database Solution Pack for z/OS / Database Reorg 3 Planned for future release

EQQSERVER avoid 878 abend

The EQQSERVER uses storage below 16 MB. If we have a lot of jobs using EQQSERVER, we get an S878.
over 6 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 2 Planned for future release

Display JOBSUBMISSION status command

Need a modify or display command similar to F subsys,STATUS or F subsys,STATUS,SUBTASK displaying current status of each job submission option HOST, FT, z-centric and all HTTP workstations.
almost 5 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 1 Planned for future release

EQQSERVER avoid 878 abend by limiting connections

The EQQSERVER uses memory under 16 MB. If many jobs use the EQQSERVER, we get an S878. To avoid downtime, the number of concurrent connections must be limited. The server task should reject or queue new incoming connections (e.g. a FIFO queue). To...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 4 Planned for future release