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IBM Z Workload Scheduler

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Protect or change behavior of RERUN on a waiting application

Rerun on a waiting application is very dangerous : all external predecessors are set to COMPLETE.2 proposals :Not allow REUN on a WAITING application, just allow it on a COMPLETE application.Or change behavior of RERUN on a waiting application to ...
about 7 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 1 Future consideration

DWC to allow building a TASK that can use greater than or less than

on job listing tasks, would like to have the greater than or less than option for columns like actual end time or deadline time.
about 7 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Enhance Long Duration Alert Message Information for Usability

The Long Duration alert message should be enhanced to provide additional information that will assist in quicker assessment and analysis. Additional information requested to add to the message:* Run Cycle * Job start time* Jobs estimated duration*...
about 7 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

DWC Tag a critical path job with user whom is researching

on DWC, operators would like to TAG a critical path job that they are currently working on to prevent duplicate research efforts.
over 7 years 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.
over 7 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 1 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...
almost 8 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 1 Not under 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

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

New PlaceHolder for Interceptor jobs in TWS

Hi Team, Issue: Interceptor collector job is failing due to below error: +++ CONMAN: AWSBHU076E Conman cannot process the issued command. The following error occurred: AWSBHU510E The following job already exists: "EB4SAP-DB#GT_I_NPS_CRM.A020031955...
about 8 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