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IBM Z Workload Scheduler

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By default, disable activation of the operation user field “SUBJOB USER”.

introducing a feature like this with an APAR can easily go unnoticed. This could lead to a huge security breach, giving everyone the power to submit a job under ANYONES authority, if not protected by RACF using the user field to specifie the job s...
2 months ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 1 Planned for future release

Support JAVA 11 for Historical Data Archiver for enabling reporting feature in TDWC.

Add Support for JAVA 11 for the Historical Data Archiver that loads DB2 data into the reporting feature in the DWC.
3 months ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Planned for future release

Eliminate the TEMPORARY operand of parameter SSCMNAME as it is not necessary and causes many problems

Currently the SSCMNAME can be coded as (EQQSSCMx,TEMPORARY) or (EQQSSCMx,PERMANENT) where x is a subsystem suffix (for instance letter O for 10.1 release). However it is not necessary to have the TEMPORARY option as to go to the different release ...
3 months ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Planned for future release

Sample code for zWS user exits (EQQUXnnn) should allow a TRACE for input parameters and return codes

For sample exit code provided in SEQQSAMP or generated from the exit workbench, it would help to be able to turn on a trace which lists the input parameters (normally pointed to via register 1) and the return code used to leave the exit, as this i...
7 months ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Planned for future release

EQQUSIN expand job number field and add duration in 100th*sec

Actually the EQQUSIN has a duration limit of 99 hours 59 minutes. We have external jobs with longer durations and need the exact duration in tools like Xinfo. As described in the documentation, the ACT_DUR field has a CHAR size of 4. Updating oper...
10 months ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Planned for future release

Add an 80% warning message before zWS reaches 100% limit for adding applications of the same name. (EQQM952E & EQQM952I)

To add a 80% alert before an application reaches its limit of 1440 entries to be added. EQQM952E FAILED TO ADD APPLICATION XXXXXXEQQM952I REASON: NO UNIQUE INPUT ARRIVAL TIME LEFT IN CP FOR THIS APPLICATION This will give Scheduling team time to r...
11 months ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Planned for future release

Make sure EQQICTOP (migration) program is run with the correct input files

If a REPLAN is not run after stopping the controller task, and then the migration program EQQICTOP is executed, the EQQCPIN DD must be set to the CP1 dataset not the NCP. If the NCP is specified as input, the current plan will be back leveled to t...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Planned for future release

EAV Support to the Datastore UDF repositories

We are asking that HCL/IBM consider our request to add much-needed functionality and scalability to the IWS Datastore by adding VSAM Extended Format (which implies multi-volume) and EAV Support to the Datastore UDF repositories. Please refer to In...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Planned for future release

Operation duration set to 00:00:01 in CP during daily plan extend when WS changed from reporting to non-reporting.

Current IWS Functionality. When the workstation is changed for an operation (job) in the AD from reporting to non-reporting, the duration of the operation in the CP is set to 00:00:01 during the daily plan extend. I would like the same function...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Planned for future release

Ability to Submit Group Thru DWC (Dynamic Workload Console)

Currently, the DWC does not allow a Group to be submitted. It only submits the application you demand in but not the others in the group. It should prompt to run a the group or specific application within the group. This functionality is available...
about 2 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Planned for future release

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