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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 3 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Additional validation of input arrival date in 5.1 panel

When adding an application in 5.1 at 23:59 and confirming it at 0:01 the input arrival date will be the one set at 23:59. It is causing that variables like '%OYMD' inside jobs will be provided by the date from the previous day. Additionally, when ...
12 days ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Submitted

Multiple dependencies in DWC Plan View

I would like to suggest that the 'Plan View' functionality for DWC on z/OS gets improved.Today when it's used and you search for a specific job stream or application, the Plan View only shows one level of predecessors.The only way to see an entire...
2 months ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Additional time options for Not Started Alert/Action at operation level

Not Started Alert feature at job level, allows to define a specific day and time to request an Alert or an Action for those operations that didn’t start within that time. This feature could be improved adding the possibility to select as time opti...
5 months ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Issue alert/warning message when PS reaches limit

Dear support, We've suffered quite a lot situations that when parallel server limit of a workstation was reached the jobs scheduled to run on that workstations were pending submission with status "Submit in progress". But we couldn't see a warning...
5 months ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Enable SSL connections to Db2 z/OS for DWC

Security policy requires TCP/IP connections to Db2 for z/OS to be encrypted. Db2 systems may be customized with SECPORT only (no TCPPORT). Currently, configureDB.sh with RDBMS=DB2Z does not support DB_SSL_CONNECTION=true.
16 days ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Submitted

Dynamicaly request the usage value of Network OCC IDs

We are monitoring the EQQMC03I message and this is not a seldom event in our environment. So we want to monitor the usage of the NWK OCC IDs value.
19 days 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...
19 days 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....
12 months ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Improve dynamic scheduling, with scenarios driven by unplanned workload

Dynamic scheduling is increasing and unplanned applications cover a big piece of daily workload.Following scenario is currently supported in IBM Z Workload Scheduler. A job in an application has an external predecessor, defined using a relative in...
9 months ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

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