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    Change the sample installation

    Change all the installation sample increasing the space for each dataset creation (EQQPCS01, EQQPCS02 etc.)
    2 months ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Planned for future release

    Requesting a feature enhancement related to IWS Service Now Interface. Currently within the Controller startup init parms, an INCTICKETTOKEN parm is provided for the INCTICKETCALLER to be able to connect to Service Now. The INCTICKETTOKEN is an OAuth token that has an expire date. This enhancement / Idea is in the area of OAuth token management within our current implementation. At present, the system supports sending an OAuth access token, which is inherently short-lived. However, it lacks the capability to send an OAuth renewal (refresh) certificate to retrieve a new access token once the original has expired. This limitation poses a challenge for maintaining seamless authentication and uninterrupted service access. The need for automated token renewal is critical. Without it, expired access tokens require manual reauthorization, which can disrupt workflows and reduce system reliability. We propose the following enhancement: • Enable the system to send a valid OAuth renewal certificate when the access token expires. • Automatically retrieve and store the new access token using the refresh token mechanism. • Ensure compatibility with existing OAuth 2.0 standards and security protocols. This feature would significantly improve operational efficiency and reduce manual intervention, especially in integrations such as ServiceNow and IWS Scheduler, where token expiration has already been flagged as a concern. We appreciate your consideration of this request and are happy to provide additional context or participate in any review or planning sessions needed to support implementation. Thank you.

    All IWS users using the Service Now Interface.
    2 months ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Not under consideration

    Need to be able to customize TdwcGlobalSettings within the zconnector, for example, to increase the value for zosHttpTimeout to avoid timeout issues with RESTAPI calls

    Having the timeout at 30,000 milliseconds (30 seconds) is causing difficulties for implementing RESTAPI. It seems to be possible to increase the timeout limit with: <?xml version="1.0"?> <tdwc> <settings> <http> <propert...
    3 months ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Planned for future release

    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

    IBM Z Workload Scheduler - 'Service Now' Interface - Limitations

    Currently, the IWS 'Service Now' Interface is only providing the ability to pass 3 parms / fields for Service now to use in creating an Incident ticket. These parms / fields are: IMPACT, URGENCY, and SHORTDESCR. The contents of the TEXTMEMBER stat...
    2 months ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Planned for future release

    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...
    7 months ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

    Add the IP address and PORT NUMBER values to the existing message EQQHT29E

    Customer is using a certificate generating/validating product which performs activity within the controller address space, and since this product is not an AGENT whose IP address and PORT NUMBER are coded in the ROUTOPTS statement, the access trig...
    about 1 month ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Planned for future release

    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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