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Status Future consideration
Created by Guest
Created on May 27, 2019

Refreshing the subsystem of a controller after a new release

After the installation of a new release, the customer must either do an IPL or restart the controller on EACH lpars to upgrade the subsystem.
For instance, on a productive system with 12 lpars and 3 IWS instances, the controllers must be restarted 36 times because the REBUILD processing must run on each lpars.
it would be more secure to allow the subsystem to be updated with a modify command or with a transient started task after the new release is installed.

Idea priority Medium
  • Guest
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    Nov 6, 2019

    Due to processing by IBM, this request was reassigned to have the following updated attributes:
    Brand - Cloud
    Product family - Workload Automation and Control Desk
    Product - IBM Workload Scheduler (IWS)

    For recording keeping, the previous attributes were:
    Brand - WebSphere
    Product family - ITSM Automation and Control Desk
    Product - IBM Workload Scheduler (IWS)