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IBM Z Workload Scheduler

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Remote engine - Shadow job status

With reference to PMR n.° 40852 311 758 - Problem on shadow job status - we would like ask to improve how shadow job worksin order to avoid the behaviur described in the PMR. Shadow job doesn't reflect faithfully the status of its Remote.
almost 7 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Planned for future release

EQQADMIN needs to be modifiable without RACF command

Currently EQQADMIN can only be put into effect via issuing of RACF commands such as RDEFINE EQQADMIN AUTOMAPPING APPLDATA(‘NO’/'YES')or RDEFINE EQQADMIN DWC_userID@Hostname APPLDATA(‘RACF_userID’). If the RACF class EQQADMIN is defined and enabled...
about 3 years 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.
about 1 year 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.
about 1 year ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Improve JOBREC to include RESTFUL Web Services

Today, it's impossible to call a RESTful web service via Z/OS agent (Zcentric) using /JOBREC card.To do this, we must use DWC specific plugin or call the web services via a script.
about 8 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 1 Not under consideration

Improve SUBMIT trace and allow a tracker to have multiple submittors (instead of deploying multiple submit-only trackers

In this case through a combination of JCL DEBUG and SUBMIT traces it was seen that a tracker was overloaded (needed to submit over 7000 jobs in a 10-minute period and was only able to submit around 6300 jobs. It would have been easier to see if a ...
about 4 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 1 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...
about 1 year ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Shadow jobs between zOS and TwsD : Matching criteria same scheduled date

Between TWS 8.6 zOS and TwsD 9.1 shadow jobs, the only value for "matching criteria" is "previous". We'd like you to offer also the value "same scheduled date". Thanks for your feedback.
over 10 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 2 Planned for future release

Support JAVA 11 for Historical Data Archiver for enabling reporting feature in TDWC.

Add Support for JAVA 11 for the Historical Data Archiver that loads DB2 data into the reporting feature in the DWC.
about 1 year ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Planned for future release

change in the behavior of SMOOTHSUBRATE

We have evaluated the use of smoothsubrate in our workload. many thanks for your explanation in the case TS009434150 The current function with the SMOOTHSUBRATE parm is not appropriate for our use, because 1. All workstations (incl general worksta...
about 1 year ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

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