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Plug gaps in Authority Group security

Authority Group is the element by which jobs submitted by IZWS have their security scope described. It is also used to ensure that users cannot update or submit applications that use Authority Groups outside their sphere of responsibility. Occurre...
over 3 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Record restart action taken by operator

It would be useful if the type of restart issued by an operator was recorded in the audit file. We use the restart and cleanup option for part of our batch not all of it and when we have issues with a restart it would be helpful to know if the ope...
about 6 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Planned for future release

Kerberos support for IWSz Reporting (DBOPT)

Currently IWSz requires user ID and password in DBOPT to enable Database connection to DB2 reporting database. We need to eliminate the use of password in DBOPT. Provide Kerberos support to DBOPT for IWSz historical reporting.
over 2 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Mitigate potential security exposure of current ETT functionality by identifying/authenticating user triggering the ETT job

At present, there is potential security exposure for ETT triggers set up as 'JOBNAME REPLACE' = N. Reason being, any user can inadvertently or otherwise submit a trigger job defined in Production ETT database thereby triggering ETT application eve...
over 2 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Application Model API for IWSz

API available on the DWC installed on Z system with the URL hostname:portname/twsz/# does not contain Model API for Application when there are available with the Distributed IWS We'd like to have this model available, for IWSz as it is for the Dis...
over 2 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 1 Not under consideration

Enhancement suggestion for Mass Update functionality

When performing a Mass update to OPR - FEEDBACK LIMIT, can there be a filter criteria that allows to specify a DURATION time? In our installation we use duration times to determine what we want our Feedback limits to be. So for example, all jobs t...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

TWS : Add group definition in Layout fields list

Layout definition : Extend the selection to fields not belonging to the CP3P record but only to CP3C, such ad the Group Definition.
almost 4 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Dynamic exit support for EQQUX007

Many tools use the EQQUX007 exit point to collect information about IZWS job details. Only one exit implementation may be used as so it means that if multiple users want to leverage this exit, implementing code at the client side must be recompile...
about 4 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Simplify verification of occurence/operation status after performing a CP REFRESH (dialog option 9.5) by having an available copy of the pre-refresh files on a separate controller

Currently it is very difficult to get all the occurrences and operations in the current plan (CP) into the correct status after it is necessary to perform a REFRESH of the long term plan (which deletes the current plan). In fact it is so difficult...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Allow current plan to be automatically rebuilt with correct status information after a refresh of the plan (dialog option 9.5)

Currently it is possible to recreate the current plan from the long term plan after a CP refresh, with loss of all status information. However many customers add most of their worklad dynamically, and dynamically added occurrences are not handled ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

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