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IBM Z Workload Scheduler

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Fixing and adding additional fields in DWC metrics

Hi Team, Currently, After activating the configuration file TWSZOSMetricsConfig.properties, DWC metric portal is exposing job metric values. But, It is showing job number value in the job name field. We have checked with vendor and they mentioned ...
about 5 hours ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Submitted

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...
11 days ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

WAPL | Apply FILTER-Function to OBJECTs and SAVELISTs in LIST or SELECT Statements

The Filter function can be applied to the output of any List or Select statement. It will post-process the output and filter it only in the output DD-Statements when they are actually written (after processing the input WAPL Script) for the applie...
2 months ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Under review

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....
3 months ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration
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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...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

WAPL | Permit partial values for FILTER segment/record comperators

The segment operators in the FILTER function do not permit the usage of partial values. The usage of partial values with common wildcard charactes like in the List/Select-Statement would be helpful and creats a greate user experience while using W...
2 months ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Under review

Allow calculation of "OCLASTC" variables for months in the future

Currently, we can calculate the last calendar day with OCLASTC. From time to time it is needed to calculate the last calendar day of +1M or even more. According to these documentations, it is not valid to just calculate +1M to OCLASTC and the beha...
6 months ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Achieve multi-tenancy support for the sendmail definitions (alert conditions and text)

As the need for a multi-tenant system with TWS grows in significance due to the decentralization of work across various groups within the company, having a mechanism to separate sendmail definitions (alert conditions and text) among different auth...
8 months ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

EQQ messages for jobs NOPed and SR availability change

Dear IWSz development team, Due to batch monitor requirement, we're looking for EQQ messages for the circumstances: 1) When a job is NOPed. 2) When a job is Held. 3) When SR availability is changed, especially when SR is changed to AVAIL(YES) no m...
5 months ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Support $ as first Charakter for variables when using WAPL

According to this: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/announcements/z-workload-scheduler-101-extends-orchestration-capabilities-managed-file-transfer-enhances-operational-experience-ai-streamlines-workflows-definition-renewed-workload-designer?region=US ...
6 months ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 2 Future consideration