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IBM Z Workload Scheduler

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    Modify command to display parms of running controller

    Modify command to display parms of running controller so you can see what is running because the parmlib might have been updated since last restart and doesn´t show the whole truth. Would be good for IBM Casing and to see yourself if neccessary.
    over 1 year ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

    Automatic or assistance function for handling submitted jobs' status 'missing' after maintanance

    We are running 50k+ batch jobs under IBM workload scheduler control everyday and hardly can find a clean window without any batch running for host maintenance (rolling IPL) or IBM workload scheduler itself recycling. We usually found those submitt...
    about 3 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

    Enable dynamic activation of CDP logging function after it was disabled

    Dear developers, We enabled CDPz data collection function integrated within IWSz to have EQQ8006I (indicating the status change of jobs scheduled in current plan) message to feed our home grown web tool. But we met an issue - While the owning syst...
    about 2 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

    IWSz Upgrade with zero downtime

    Last weekend we migrated IWSz from V9R3 to V9R5.The complete migration took about 1h to complete. Due to the unavailability of IWSz there was some impact on critical batch processing with frequencies smaller than 1h. Today's business requirements ...
    about 4 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

    Audit IWS service functions

    Nearly all service functions in IWS dialog selection 9 are critical to business or at least can be in case of misuse or inattentiveness. So, as a consequence, it is necessary to audit all the following functions:- Deactivate job submission: MLOG c...
    over 4 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

    Add the ability to locate a specific job within an application schedule without the need to manually browse

    When looking for a specific job in an IWS application ID you have to manually browse through the schedule to find the job your looking for. It would be nice to be able to enter an 'F <jobName>' command in the primary command line to go strai...
    over 2 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

    Options to limit number of ETTs

    Controller faced a memory abend S80A/S878 due to a file/dataset was closed almost 4000 times within an hour to ETT an application.We would like options to limit number of ETTs. The problem is described in CASE TS018996935
    7 months ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

    Correct the handling of an EQQJTARC file full (SB37 abend) to ensure that job tracking records are not lost, and jobs are not submitted twice

    Currently, if the EQQJTARC file becomes full, immediately the zWS JT ARCHIVER subtask fails (message EQQZ045E SUBTASK JT LOG ARCHIVER ENDED UNEXPECTEDLY) however it is still possible to write job tracking (JT) records to the JT files which are not...
    over 2 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 2 Future consideration

    ETT Trigger Feature

    A lot of different companies I´ve talked with have problems with excessive ETT Triggering where there are so many triggers you go over the length of your current plan. I think it would be very appreciated to have some new kind of ETT triggering fe...
    over 1 year ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future 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...
    almost 2 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

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