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Status Future consideration
Created by Guest
Created on Aug 21, 2025

Paused Until workflow improvement (PLAz tool)

Product Code 5698-LDA

To be implemented from the perspective of our SMEs (Deyan Rashev, Yanko Pavlov):

Description: The current Paused Until implementation is too error prone and leads to much more work as usually necessary. We need to have automatic Pause function that will be used by the customer. The customer should have the possibility to automatically add events to the ignore list by providing any of the following details: DDL_NAME, SYSNAME, CPU, ASID, SEQ, ABEND, RSNCODE, DUMP, REG15, PSW, HASD, PASD, SASD, JOBNAME, LOAD_MOD, CSECT, SUBFUNCTION, FAILING_INSTRUCTION_TEXT. There should be a possibility to provide a date when this pause rule should expire, then it should be automatically removed from the ignore list. We would need to get a slack or email notification when such event is added. We should be able to see the details and the expiration date in this notification.

To be implemented from the customer’s perspective (Mr. Kretschmer, Mr. Danco):

- If the set date has expired, such events should be given a new IBM recommendation when they occur again in this future RunID and listed without a changed query.
- In the old PLA, we could modify the event details when setting the ignore, e.g., the job name or other details, completely or partially, generically. * This feature is very helpful for effectively suppressing an event.
- Update RunID d25182: PausedUntil is not pulling correctly, see Event PLA.C724B075.P91347.D25182.LOGREC.00003380. This functionality is currently our priority 1 issue in the new PLAz.

Idea priority High
  • Admin
    Kekahu Aluli
    Nov 14, 2025

    Hi folks - this item is a bit larger work than we have capacity for the short term. I will keep in on our backlog so we don't lose sight of it, but just for transparency's sake, we don't have the development bandwidth in the near term. We are however, planning to make a number of platform updates to the ZDAP that should help the overall user experience. Thanks for your patience and cooperation with our team!