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IBM Z Workload Scheduler

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PIF support for StepLevel Awarness

StepLevel Awareness (STEPINFO(YES)) brings benefits for operation problem solving via dialog - but in huge environments (millions of OPs) and a big disaster this way over dialog is not useful. So StepLevel Awareness should be provide a PIF interfa...
over 5 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

ZWS Support for SMF Exit IEFU86

z/OS 2.3 introduced SMF Exit IEFU086, which is being recommended to use in place of IEFU83, IEFU84, and IEFU85 since it can handle the new extended SMF record header. IEFU86 is currently not documented nor is a customized sample version shipped wi...
about 2 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Value of the %{jobStatChgEvt1.ActualStart} variable

The variable %{jobStatChgEvt1.ActualStart} that is used in Event Rule Action, Generic action, timeout actions doesn't retune start time in correct format.Example: it return this value 2018-03- 01T22:00:18Z/Australia/Perth While job logs shows like...
about 6 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Ability to Submit Group Thru DWC (Dynamic Workload Console)

Currently, the DWC does not allow a Group to be submitted. It only submits the application you demand in but not the others in the group. It should prompt to run a the group or specific application within the group. This functionality is available...
about 2 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Planned for future release

Persistent sessions HTTPS between TWS Z-centric agent and TWS Z/OS

We would like an evolution of the TWS Z-centric agent in the management of HTTPs sessions between the server and its TWS Z/OS controller. Currently, each time a TWS Z/OS controller job submits a job on a TWS Z-centric agent, 2 new TCP sessions are...
about 6 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 1 Future consideration

Auto Refresh for anything that is manually changed

Please refer to the delivered description of RFE ID 80759: Hyperlinked properties when updated should auto refresh automatically in DWC. If a job is reset manually, it would be nice if DWC auto refreshes the page immediately. This would be applica...
over 6 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Would like an option in option 5.3 ( EQQSOPFP ) to display all NOP'ed jobs

Would like an option in option 5.3 ( EQQSOPFP ) to display all NOP'ed jobs
over 8 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Planned for future release

EQQSOPGD Panel Member parm for level restrictions

For the EQQSOPGD panel update, would like to see something as simple as a parameter update or more complicated, such as different levels of complexity (nesting detail) based on userid or something security related (there is already the ADEP f...
about 2 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Prevent RCL step restart JCLI Error under JES3

During step restart under IZWS Restart & Cleanup under JES3, the C/I component performs a catalog look-up on all the data sets of the job, not just starting from the restart step. The restart fails with a JCLERR because of the following JES3 C...
about 2 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

TDWC: Be able to have operation number in correct sequence

Using TDWC and adding additional jobs to a jobstream they always become added in the bottom.
about 9 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 1 Planned for future release

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