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IBM Z Workload Scheduler

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Avoid CP EXTEND failure if LRECL of EQQTROUT is smaller than 32756

After migrating from IWSZ 9.3 to zWS 9.5 the current plan extend job (PGM=EQQDNTOP) suddenly began to fail with a message:IEC036I 002-18,IGC0005E,jjjjjjjj,DNTOP,EQQTROUT,uuuu,vvvvvv, dsname It was not clear that the problem was due to the LRECL of...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Planned for future release

Artificial intellegence assistance software

Artificial intellegence assistance software for professionals like Certified public accountant - Charted accountant CMA, company secretory Job assistance applications
over 1 year ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Not under consideration

Artificial intellegence software for assistance of MBA fields categories

Artificial intellegence assistance software manufacturing for MBA operations management, international business, Finance management , business intellegence, quality management , business management, management informations system, EMBA ,Financial ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Not under 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...
over 6 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Planned for future release

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...
almost 4 years 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 ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future 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...
about 4 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

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.
almost 3 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.
about 4 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...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration