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IBM Z Workload Scheduler

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    Initialize Cobol Language Environment

    The product provides the capability to be customized with user exits. Since programming user exits with cobol is not a question of performance any more, they get rewriten from assembler programming language to cobol. Today, it is mandatory to crea...
    almost 5 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 1 Not under consideration

    TWS IEFACTRT (EQQACTR1) should also show ZIIP usage in Joblog statistics

    We are using TWSz to schedule production and test jobs. TWSz includes a IEFACTRT (EQQACTR1) which also writes statistics in the joblog. Among the statistics is CPU usage. For users to see the real usage of CPU resources the user also needs to know...
    over 10 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 2 Not under 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...
    almost 2 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 1 Not under consideration

    monitor the situation before EQQM975E

    We got message: EQQM975E FAILED TO ADD APPLICATION ADID BECAUSE MAXIMUM NUMBER OF OCCURRENCES REACHED. . Is it possible to receive a warning message before reaching the threshold set in JTOPTS MAXOCCNUM or at least make a display to monitor the si...
    over 9 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 1 Not under consideration

    lengthen the USRPSW field

    For security purposes, password requirements have become more stringent. A requirement for a password longer than 31 characters would not be out of the question. For these reasons I believe the 'USRPSW' field in the 'USRREC' parm should be made to...
    over 3 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 1 Not under consideration

    protect requests of EQQUSIN%

    If a user requests a modify action against the mcp via EQQUSIN% (OPSTAT,SRSTAT,OPINFO,EQQEVCMD,EQQEVPGM), for example doing a job complete, his action is not checked against RACF like it is done when the user does the similiar action via ISPF or P...
    over 7 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 1 Not under consideration

    Special Resource at Application Level

    This RFE is opened in conjunction to the old and declined RFE #78363. Special Ressources (SRs) should also be connectable to whole applications (occurences) and not only at operation level.
    over 7 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 1 Not under consideration

    SUBSTR JCL command should support variables with up to 44 chars or allow a continuation with the SETVAR directive

    It should be possible to process up to 44 digits within a SUBSTRING command or to allow a continuation within the SETVAR directive. Variables with a value with up to 44 characters are not supported with the SUBSTR JCL function.
    almost 10 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 2 Not under consideration

    Exploit 64-bit addressing mode in zWS

    We would like to request the implementation of 64-bit addressing mode for zWS to avoid potential S878 storage-related abends. Our current production zWS controller has a very large and complex batch schedule with a high frequency rate of updates. ...
    over 3 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 2 Not under consideration

    Allow additional custom actions to DWC "More Actions" menu

    Currently DWC only allows for one Custom Menu (url) to be displayed in the "More Actions" menu using the twsObjectDoc section of TdwcGlobalSettings.xml . We have a requirement to have more than one Custom Action for jobs/jobstreams to point to mul...
    over 7 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 1 Not under consideration

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