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IBM Z Workload Scheduler

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AUTHDEF TRACE ( SAF trace ) needs to be started/stop via command instead of restarting the controller task

Currently to trace security issues in Z workload scheduler it is necessary to alter the controller parms to have TRACE(8) in AUTHDEF, cycle the controller, collect the EQQMLOG, then set TRACE(0) again and cycle the controller again. This makes it ...
over 3 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Protect TWS Subresources for ETT, JV, RD and SR with authority group id

Implement the field authority group id for TWS objects ETT, RD, JV and SR and protect the access to the objects via new RACF subresources(the same way as applications with subresource AD.GROUP)
over 8 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

TWSz - Tool needed for localizing cause of Critical Path gap

Tool needed for localizing successor-flow causing gaps in Critical path.
over 4 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 2 Future consideration

'Submit Ad Hoc' should work for a mainframe job

It allows to submit an ad hoc job (defined in OPC database or not). Currently it doesn't allow to submit an ad hoc job from Dynamic Workload Console. It should allow to submit an ad hoc job from Dynamic workload console web interface.
9 months ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

'Search' button in 'Edit JCL' option in Dynamic Workload Console should allow to fetch JCL from any dataset

Why is it useful? -> It will allow an ad-hoc job be run from override JCL in user's PDS/PS. Who will be benefited? All users How does it work currently? - Currently, as attached 'Search' button doesn't pull the JCL from a PDS.
9 months ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Dynamically Restart Job Occurence

We would like the ability for the controller to be able to dynamically restart a job in the plan, similar to WAPL started task.
about 5 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

change EQQYCOM to support rmode=any

IEW2646W 5383 ESD RMODE(24) CONFLICTS WITH USER-SPECIFIED RMODE(ANY) FOR SECTION EQQYCOM CLASS B_TEXT. we want to use standard linkage setting rmode=any and amode=31
over 1 year ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 1 Not under consideration

Auto reroute of shadows from z/OS to Primary MDM and BMDM on failover

Any shadows from z/OS to LINUX MDMs have to be manually rerouted from Primary to Secondary even if the applications operations have auto resart and auto reroute set on them.
about 2 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

add new field to AUDITLOG with CPU Usage

It would be interesting if on zWS/TWS/IZWS/IWS auditlog could have the batch job cpu usage added to it. Having CPU usage of the batch completed/failed/etc on it would open possibility for new reports on the tool and also not to have have to create...
9 months ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

To implement the REFRESH RACF command via PIF/OCL o WAPL function.

To activate RACF sub resources, only option 9.6 in TWS is available. There are chances to use 9.5 mistakenly. To avoid this, if there is an option in WAPL or PIF, it would be more usefull. Raised case for this, i was suggested to refresh RACF reso...
about 5 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 2 Future consideration