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IBM Z Workload Scheduler

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SUBSTR JCL command should support variables with up to 44 chars or allow a continuation with the SETVAR directive

It should be possible to process up to 44 digits within a SUBSTRING command or to allow a continuation within the SETVAR directive. Variables with a value with up to 44 characters are not supported with the SUBSTR JCL function.
about 8 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Need to filter on Jobs that are NP - NOP oper

There is a need to filter on operations that have been set to NP in panel ID EQQSOPFP. This would be much like filtering on operations set to MH (Manual Hold) NP - NOP (no operation). IWSz will set the status of the operation to complete when the ...
over 6 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Planned for future release

Panel EQQMMADP should have the same behaviour in filter capabilities as panel EQQMOCCP

If I want to create dependencies via Panel EQQMMADP in the current plan I get back a list with much to much results. In CPs with huge workload this can make EQQMMADP unuseable (several hundreds or thousands of applications in the list) Why EQQMMAD...
almost 6 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 1 Future consideration

TWSz - Tool needed for localizing cause of Critical Path gap

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

Improve the interface between zWS and CDP so that CDP continues to work with zWS if the USS filesystem is moved or restarted on a different LPAR (AUTOMOVE)

There are 3 inter-related requests here all for CDP/zWS interface (parameter CDP(YES): (1) a command to force a SWITCH of the CDP logs (similar to what is available for the SWITCHMLOG) (2) a command to force the CDP interface to start up again (wi...
8 months ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Cross Dependency: "Real Time" status in shadow Job

If we use automatic recovery statements (e.g. to insert a new application as new predecessor) the workstation status of shadow jobs don't change from E to W. IWS changes the status of the shadow job after the recovery action is completed (the new ...
8 months ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Enable a confirmation panel after the TWS panel EQQMEP1L (5.4)

We need to enable a confirmation panel after the TWS panel EQQMEP1L (5.4) to complete a job with an error state. Currently, there is no post-EQQMEP1L confirmation panel that requires you to verify a job data before completing your job. Because of ...
8 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.
over 4 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)
about 8 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Possibility to save in a file the list of all dependencies by running it in batch or save the list under ISPF.

We have the need to export the list of all dependencies of an application in a file. Currently this list is only available under ISPF (Option 9 ALL DEPS of SELECTING APPLICATION OCCURENCE AND OPERATION INFORMATION) We'd like to have a WAPPL comman...
about 2 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

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