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IBM Z Workload Scheduler

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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 1 year ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

lengthen the USRPSW field

For security purposes, password requirements have become more stringent. A requirement for a password longer than 31 characters would not be out of the question. For these reasons I believe the 'USRPSW' field in the 'USRREC' parm should be made to...
over 2 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 1 Not under 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 1 year ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 2 Future consideration

Add SHIFT and SHIFTDAYTYPE to WAPL LIST GENDAYS

With WAPL, the LIST GENDAYS can be used to generate the passage dates for a RULE. Unfortunately, SHIFT and SHIFTDAYTYPE cannot be encoded in LIST GENDAYS. So the dates determined are wrong. However, the GENDAYS for this interactive RULE does take ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 1 Future consideration

In addition to open idea ZWS-I-230 besides removing the TEMPORARY operand of parameter SSCMNAME, it would be better to remove parameters BUILDSSX and SSCMNAME and just use SETSSI commands

We are continuing to have a lot of serious issues resulting from the use of the BUILDSSX and SSCMNAME parameters to make changes to the subsystems for zWS controllers and trackers, for example recent HIPER APARs PH59155 and PH59387. The BUILDSSX a...
3 months ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 1 Not under 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 3 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Exploit 64-bit addressing mode in zWS

We would like to request the implementation of 64-bit addressing mode for zWS to avoid potential S878 storage-related abends. Our current production zWS controller has a very large and complex batch schedule with a high frequency rate of updates. ...
over 2 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 2 Not under consideration

Allow TWS to cancel jobs it has submitted early

There's a new feature to allow TWS to submit jobs early to the systems, however as soon as it does then if a decision is made to not execute the job it needs to be done on the system, which would require giving additional RACF access. It would be ...
6 months ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Running the DWC docker container on Openshift for Z (s390x).

Have the DWC docker container available on Openshift for Z (s390x), with this, I can move my zOS workload console to run on a IFL.
over 2 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Planned for future release

Encrypting TWS Zcentric workstation password on Mainframe

Encrypting TWS Zcentric workstation password on Mainframe. Currently we have Set of TWS workstation ID and password saved in PARMFTA userinfo dataset on mainframe to connect to connect to zcentric workstation pn windows This userid and password is...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 1 Future consideration

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