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    Clear evidence in panels where operations (and pred chain) have been marked complete by manual actions

    When an operation is marked complete (and with it any predecessor chain with it) the BROWSING DETAILED OPERATION INFORMATION TWS panel (EQQSOPDP) should make this evident in the Status and Actual fields. The following lines should be amended as th...
    3 months ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

    Extension of the event filter exit regarding IJ1 events

    This idea is useful in environments with 2 or more zWS controllers or in environments with a local zWS controller and remote controllers having zWS trackers on the the local system. Today you can use the event filter exit EQQUX004 to filter the EX...
    4 months ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

    Trigger WLM for a single target job's job chain

    From a list of target jobs, indicate the ones for which WLM should be triggered.
    5 months ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

    In critical paths, intervention to assign priority to jobs waiting in the JES queues

    When a job in the execution chain of a late critical path is waiting for init to execute, change its priority to anticipate its execution.
    5 months ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

    Requirement to have more variables in EQQEMAIL Member - Occurrence Input Arrival Time

    We need an extension in the function „Sending an email when an alert condition occurs " https://help.hcl-Software.com/workloadautomation/v101/zos/src_man/eqqr1sendemail.html In the EQQEMAIL Member, various variables can be used here. Currently I o...
    5 months ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 1 Future consideration

    add attachment in email alert

    Very often, whenever operation or jobstream owner receives the TWS email alert for job completion error, we would want to get the joblog for troubleshooting. If the joblog could be sent as attachment togther with the email alert, it could speed up...
    5 months ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 2 Future consideration

    Amend the way manually completed tasks are shown to aid diagnosis

    Useful to see after the fact that an operator has marked something complete rather than it just have running like it shows now. Also it would also be benficial if when marking an op complete in the panels the user is informed of the dependant ops ...
    5 months ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

    zWS should support PDSE 2 with versioning for job libraries

    This IDEA is based on a case we opened recently. PDSE version 2 also includes a function to support dfSMS PDSE member generations since 2014 (OA42247: DEVELOPMENT) From our point of view it would be useful, if zWS supports this function also for E...
    6 months ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 1 Future consideration

    Simple Code Generation As Part Of Job Tailoring

    We need a feature to generate a codeblock based on variables inside a JCL variable table several times (like dot-function of ISPF File Tailoring) inside of jcl. Therefore, I propose to extend the action-jcl directive or even a new TWS JCL directiv...
    6 months ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

    Add a parameter for number of retry and wait when using : RECOVER function in JCLs

    We use the TWS/OPC RECOVER cards to automaticly restart batch jobs in case of DB2 contentions and abend (DB2 code : -911) but have a limitation of usage because sometime the job must wait some time before to restart : 60 to 300 second (to let the ...
    7 months ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

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