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IBM Z Workload Scheduler

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Restore the CP at the moment just before an human error

It happened that by mistake an operator made a massive action on the CP (he completed all the application with status=W/S/E). In this case the RERUN of the erronuosly completed applications was not the solution because the previous batch complete ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 1 Delivered

2fa access to DWC or RestAPI

Actually, the user must identify himself with an userid/password. To enhance the security and make it easier for the lambda user, We have the need being able to use either 2FA or Certificate-based logons to the web-interface of Dynamic Workload Co...
about 1 year ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 1 Delivered

Enable SAF_Keyring Support for TCPOPTS

The HTTPOPTS statement of TWSz controller allows you to specify a SAF-Keyring for using SSL-Connection. But this only enables secure communication via SAF-Keyrings for Controller-Controller connection.We also want to secure the TCP/IP communicatio...
almost 9 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 1 Delivered

2FA access to DWC or RestAPI

Instead of performing it’s own user/password authentication DWC reads the user from the HTTP header. DWC should be able to restrict the traffic it accepts by IP addresses or DNS names in order to have a trust relation with the proxy.
about 1 year ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 1 Delivered

Container Image for Dynamic Workload Console for S390/x architecture similar to x86

Development of a container image for Dynamic Workload Console for the S390x CPU architecture for installing the image on z / Linux or container extension on z / OS including installation documentation
over 4 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Delivered

Startup Message of the controller is needed, when every service is available

We are used to use EQQZ200I as startup message of the controller task. As soon as it appears, system automation will release tasks that are waiting for the controller. In our environment some tasks communication with an controller by pif are holdi...
over 3 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 1 Delivered

EQQAUDIT should include records if operation is manually hold

Manually HOLD option or NOP'ed are not logged properly or displayed correctly in the EQQAUDIT report IF change has been done by modify of the operation using 5.3 (M.3). Same issue if operation is updated using 5.2 and modify of the application is ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 1 Delivered

Increase default MAXREL size for EQQADDS and EQQLTDS

The MAXRECL default for the AD ( EQQADDS) and LT (EQQLTDS) has been 131072 for a long time. Some customers already need to increase the MAXRECL size and if more fields are added to support new functionality, the current MAXRECL sizes may become in...
over 3 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 1 Delivered

Enhance description on the number of occurrences

** Context **My customer consolidated ZWS controller from 20 to 1 for improving operability. With the consolidation, the number of occurrences in one CP became 20 times larger, specifically from 30,000 occurrences per CP to 600,000 occurrences in ...
over 3 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 2 Delivered

Removal of the limitation of predecessor in the current plan

On complex network (our production system 'UPLEX1? run mother than 300000 operation/day)the limitation of predecessor to 1000 may cause some operation to be started too early and to fails.
over 4 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 2 Delivered

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