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IBM Z Workload Scheduler

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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.
6 months 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...
7 months ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 1 Delivered

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 ...
11 months 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 ...
about 1 year ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 1 Delivered

EQQN131W no longer needed in recent releases of IzWS

Warning messages EQQN131W THE UNIT OF MEASURE FOR THE MAXJSFILE PARAMETER HAS CHANGED FROM KILOBYTES TO MEGABYTES concerns the change introduced in TWS 8.6.0. Currently supported IzWS releases don't support migration from releases from before TWS ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 1 Delivered

ServiceNow integration for IZWS

Today we have our Mainframe and DWC installed next to it. We would like to create some automatic incidents on ServiceNow by using ‘’events’’ on DWC through API on the Mainframe.
over 1 year ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 1 Delivered

Reduce vulnerabilities with TCPIP connections by providing RACF Keyring support.

There is a risk that exploitation of TCP/IP connection vulnerabilities by a malicious actor could lead to the loss of Customer data and potentially service outage. All IzWS access would need to be reviewed which could lead to access being remov...
about 2 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 ...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 2 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...
almost 3 years 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...
about 3 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 1 Delivered

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