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IBM Z Workload Scheduler

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Allow WAPL to be able to update database example UPDSR by ADID and Jobn

So users do not have to update 1000 separate jobs and to ensure the only job that is being updated is within the selected application.
about 4 hours ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 1 Submitted

Issue alert/warning message when PS reaches limit

Dear support, We've suffered quite a lot situations that when parallel server limit of a workstation was reached the jobs scheduled to run on that workstations were pending submission with status "Submit in progress". But we couldn't see a warning...
about 1 month ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Additional time options for Not Started Alert/Action at operation level

Not Started Alert feature at job level, allows to define a specific day and time to request an Alert or an Action for those operations that didn’t start within that time. This feature could be improved adding the possibility to select as time opti...
about 1 month ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Grouping feature to group the jobs for more granular anomaly detection in AIDA

We would like to request the implementation of a grouping feature within AIDA to enable the grouping of jobs(by application) for more granular anomaly detection. Currently, AIDA will provide anomaly detection for all jobs in the workstation. Howev...
8 days ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Submitted
158 VOTE

TWS High Availability

We are working with high availability in the customer's datacenter, so tests were done with TWS simulating an lpar outage where TWS was active in a sysplex. The standby controller takes over work correctly for new jobs that are submitted, but jobs...
about 3 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Issue another message if job is Auto Recvered - EQQE036I replaced by EQQE036A

Issue another message if job is Auto Recvered - EQQE036I replaced by EQQE036A EQQE036I message replaced if auto recovery is in job and error code tested for is in play. EQQE036I should only be issued when the job ends in error queue and will not b...
3 months ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 1 Future consideration

Alert message when a WS has reached the max of parallels servers coded

We are often contacted to analyze why jobs have been late. We have no way to verify if the root cause is a lake of parallels servers. In case of a jobs waits for parallels servers available, it would be nice to have a message in the log, or if it'...
14 days ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Create an option for manual control of job late starts for email alerts.

This is useful because we have over 150 batch jobs that will not get a correct LST from the algorithm that runs when we extend the current plan daily. This would benefit anyone who is having problems with the algorithm or want's a late start email...
about 1 month ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

User fields at occurrence level

Currently we have a PIF interface to add occurrences to the current plan. We need to pass variables to a job/operation that are up to 500 bytes long (for non-zos environment). The variables have to be available to all operations in the occurrence....
8 months ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Improve dynamic scheduling, with scenarios driven by unplanned workload

Dynamic scheduling is increasing and unplanned applications cover a big piece of daily workload.Following scenario is currently supported in IBM Z Workload Scheduler. A job in an application has an external predecessor, defined using a relative in...
5 months ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration