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IBM Z Workload Scheduler

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Possibility to execute procedures in Snowflake and other plugins

Email from customer: Do you know if it should be possible to execute procedures in Snowflake (From DWC/IWS ) ?? Like this : call COMMON_DATA.SP_CREATE_PRODUCT_TYPE_MAPPING_VIEWS(); Contacted PlugIns team: The procedures cannot be executed, in plug...
7 months ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Add feature to chose Local or UTC Time in APPLYUNTIL function

We are very interessed to use point in time recovery in TWS with option APPLYUNTIL (enhancement APAR PH56381 (10.1 SPE3)) but need an option to choose the time used to be coherent with other products like DB2 or applications if we make a global re...
3 months ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Ability for Zos controller to push zcentric agent upgrades

This will assist in the ability to upgrade hundreds of zcentric agents easily as well as keeping the product as up to date as possible.
11 months ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 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.
4 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.
4 months ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Dynamic Workload Console on Z : Make the report path (dwc_workarea) configurable

We'd like to have the report path (dwc_workarea) variable configurable to avoid ICH408I message at the start of the STC (insufficient authority to create /reports directory)The report path is actually a fix path set to /reports. Our site configura...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Syncron processing of user-defined Workstations (EQQUX0099

User-defined workstations are currently processed asynchronously. The workstation analyzer identifies the operation to be submitted and performs these actions: 1.queues, asynchronously, a submit request to the Data Router task 2.updates the curren...
over 3 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...
4 months ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Audit IWS service functions

Nearly all service functions in IWS dialog selection 9 are critical to business or at least can be in case of misuse or inattentiveness. So, as a consequence, it is necessary to audit all the following functions:- Deactivate job submission: MLOG c...
over 3 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Change EQQACTR1 - Show ZIIP instead of PG

The EXIT EQQACTR1 writes statistics in the joblog. Among the statistics CPU usage is shown. But there isn't any option to see how much zIIP time the job uses. zIIP time is also a SMF record 30 field. It would be useful to show zIIP usage as well i...
over 3 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration