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IBM Z Workload Scheduler

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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...
    over 4 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

    Requirement to have more variables in EQQEMAIL Member - Occurrence Input Arrival Time

    We need an extension in the function „Sending an email when an alert condition occurs " https://help.hcl-Software.com/workloadautomation/v101/zos/src_man/eqqr1sendemail.html In the EQQEMAIL Member, various variables can be used here. Currently I o...
    5 months ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 1 Future consideration

    Add additional variables to EMAIL and INCIDENT features

    Some key variables are missing from the EMAIL and INCIDENT features. OHHMM - The input arrival time of the failed job (absolutely key to uniquely identify the failing operation) OJJSTEP - Job step of failed job (can save time to resolution, avoidi...
    9 months ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 2 Future consideration

    Clear evidence in panels where operations (and pred chain) have been marked complete by manual actions

    When an operation is marked complete (and with it any predecessor chain with it) the BROWSING DETAILED OPERATION INFORMATION TWS panel (EQQSOPDP) should make this evident in the Status and Actual fields. The following lines should be amended as th...
    3 months ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

    Extension of the event filter exit regarding IJ1 events

    This idea is useful in environments with 2 or more zWS controllers or in environments with a local zWS controller and remote controllers having zWS trackers on the the local system. Today you can use the event filter exit EQQUX004 to filter the EX...
    4 months ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

    ROUTOPS PROXY support for Remote Workstations on IWA/d

    When setting up a remote workstation on IWS/z, where the agent is on IWS/d in Kubernetes, it is often front ended by a Kubernetes Ingress. This restricts the number of open ports to communicate with applications within the containerised world. Thi...
    11 months ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

    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....
    almost 2 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 1 Future consideration

    zWS should support PDSE 2 with versioning for job libraries

    This IDEA is based on a case we opened recently. PDSE version 2 also includes a function to support dfSMS PDSE member generations since 2014 (OA42247: DEVELOPMENT) From our point of view it would be useful, if zWS supports this function also for E...
    6 months ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 1 Future consideration

    Simple Code Generation As Part Of Job Tailoring

    We need a feature to generate a codeblock based on variables inside a JCL variable table several times (like dot-function of ISPF File Tailoring) inside of jcl. Therefore, I propose to extend the action-jcl directive or even a new TWS JCL directiv...
    6 months ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

    The max value (65535) of Network OCC IDs is too small in huge environments

    We run into dataloss situations when the usage of NetWork OCC IDs is 100%. We are monitoring the EQQMC03I message and we got this event very often at night before we schedule a daily planning job (e.g. CP Replan). In a situation when we have to av...
    12 months ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 2 Future consideration

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