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IBM Z Workload Scheduler

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Fixing and adding additional fields in DWC metrics

Hi Team, Currently, After activating the configuration file TWSZOSMetricsConfig.properties, DWC metric portal is exposing job metric values. But, It is showing job number value in the job name field. We have checked with vendor and they mentioned ...
6 months ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Relief IZWS PIF LIST Memory Storage Limitation

Our installation has written several IZWS Add-on components that extract data from the Current Plan. Some monitoring or live snapshots requests read the entire CPOP segments. Therefore, it happens, when there is more workload, that the PIF LIST is...
10 months ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 1 Future consideration

Integration with CDP in a configuration with a standby controller

We use a standby controller and we want to use the CDP whit it running but now is not supported. This is why we request to integrate CDP with standby controllers
about 2 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

support us to allow only one session for one user at a time through DWC.

It is possible now that multiple sessions can be started for a single user at a same time. Multiple sessions can lead to data integrity issues when concurrent access to the same data is allowed. We must restrict the no of sessions for the same use...
3 months ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

SUBJOBUSER to support control via RACF SURROGAT profiles

The SUBJOBUSER user field feature introduced by PH35729 allows IzWS operations to specify the submission user as the value associated with SUBJOBUSER. But there is no RACF validation of what is effectively surrogate user submission once the SUBJOB...
about 3 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 1 Planned for future release

Setting restriction for updating job status changes in TWS CP

Please enable the prompt confirmation in TWS panel (5.3) for changing the job status. Currently, there is no prompt confirmation for changing the job status via 5.3 -> M (an operation) -> 6 (General) -> Update status . Due to this, human ...
about 1 year ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Replace Workload Scheduler exits with build in functionality

We want to move away from assembler based product options and modifications to a modern approach with regular parameter files. This approach provides more agility, easier maintenance and easy transparency on used settings. This initiative is not l...
12 months ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Convert zWS Exits to Parmlib

Due to the limited Assembler skills, it is becoming extremely difficult to maintain our multitude of zWS-related user exits. It would be beneficial to have the option of paramertising all zWS exits to allow us to remove our dependency on the legac...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 2 Future consideration

By default, disable activation of the operation user field “SUBJOB USER”.

introducing a feature like this with an APAR can easily go unnoticed. This could lead to a huge security breach, giving everyone the power to submit a job under ANYONES authority, if not protected by RACF using the user field to specifie the job s...
8 months ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 1 Planned for future release

Change IWS Reporting of User Abends as Hex Values to true User Abend Decimal Values

User abends are often bigger than 3 numbers and error codes in IWS are 4 digits. The first digit for a User error is "U" to show it's not a condition code, but now there are only 3 digits for a 4 digit code. So, IWS turns the decimal number to a h...
4 months ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 1 Future consideration