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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

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

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

Display JOBSUBMISSION status command

Need a modify or display command similar to F subsys,STATUS or F subsys,STATUS,SUBTASK displaying current status of each job submission option HOST, FT, z-centric and all HTTP workstations.
over 3 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Planned for future release

IWS CPU usage improvement for ETT data set CLOSE events

Each IWS tracker subsystem on z/OS gets control during data set CLOSE processing in order to check, if this event is related to an ETT-defined data set (ETT = Event Triggered Tracking) in the EQQDSLST-file.If EQQDSLST contains many entries (severa...
over 6 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 1 Planned for future release

Running the DWC docker container on Openshift for Z (s390x).

Have the DWC docker container available on Openshift for Z (s390x), with this, I can move my zOS workload console to run on a IFL.
almost 2 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Planned for future release

SUBJOBUSER to support control via RACF SURROGAT profiles

The SUBJOBUSER user field feature introduced by PH35729 allows IzWS operations to specify the submission user as the value associated with SUBJOBUSER. But there is no RACF validation of what is effectively surrogate user submission once the SUBJOB...
over 2 years 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

The communication between DWC & DB2 (any RDBMS) needs to be encrypted)

When using the DWC for querying the Historical or Statistical tables the communication should be configurable to use encryption - TLS.
about 2 years 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