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IBM Z Workload Scheduler

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protect requests of EQQUSIN%

If a user requests a modify action against the mcp via EQQUSIN% (OPSTAT,SRSTAT,OPINFO,EQQEVCMD,EQQEVPGM), for example doing a job complete, his action is not checked against RACF like it is done when the user does the similiar action via ISPF or P...
over 6 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 1 Not under consideration

Special Resource at Application Level

This RFE is opened in conjunction to the old and declined RFE #78363. Special Ressources (SRs) should also be connectable to whole applications (occurences) and not only at operation level.
over 6 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 1 Not under consideration

TWS IEFACTRT (EQQACTR1) should also show ZIIP usage in Joblog statistics

We are using TWSz to schedule production and test jobs. TWSz includes a IEFACTRT (EQQACTR1) which also writes statistics in the joblog. Among the statistics is CPU usage. For users to see the real usage of CPU resources the user also needs to know...
about 9 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 2 Not under consideration

monitor the situation before EQQM975E

We got message: EQQM975E FAILED TO ADD APPLICATION ADID BECAUSE MAXIMUM NUMBER OF OCCURRENCES REACHED. . Is it possible to receive a warning message before reaching the threshold set in JTOPTS MAXOCCNUM or at least make a display to monitor the si...
over 8 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 1 Not under consideration

The IWS Restart and cleanup operation can only be performed from an ISPF panel. I want you to be able to perform this operation in a batchjob.

If we want to restart failed batch job, then we should use panel EQQRCLSE on ISPF.We want the failed batch job to be restarted by the batch job instead of from the panel.
almost 2 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 1 Not under consideration

OPCOPTS - Parameter REMJCLDIRECTIVES should be set default as YES since it always caused OPC Fetch Directive error if not set to YES

As this Parameter REMJCLDIRECTIVES current default set to NO is an very old design, when we use OPC Fetch Directive, the JCL will always throw error anyway. This mean REMJCLDIRECTIVES(YES) will be mandatory. However, this should also take in cons...
about 2 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 1 Not under consideration

change EQQYCOM to support rmode=any

IEW2646W 5383 ESD RMODE(24) CONFLICTS WITH USER-SPECIFIED RMODE(ANY) FOR SECTION EQQYCOM CLASS B_TEXT. we want to use standard linkage setting rmode=any and amode=31
over 1 year ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 1 Not under consideration

Provide easy method to do a migration from a very old zWS release (example 8.6) to a newer one (example 9.5 or 10.1)

Currently, program EQQICTOP cannot be used to migrate FROM certain releases to other RELEASE. For example you cannot migrate from 8.6 to 9.5 in a single run of EQQICTOP, but you can migrate from 8.6 to 9.3 using an invocation of a 9.3 level of EQQ...
11 months ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 1 Not under consideration

zSort Support for zWS

Allow usage of the hardware accelerated approach to sorting by z/OS Workload Scheduler (zWS) to take advantage of the IBM Integrated Accelerator for Z Sort. The aim will be to reduce the CPU costs and improve the elapsed time for eligible batch wo...
11 months ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 1 Not under 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.
almost 8 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 1 Not under consideration

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