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Status Future consideration
Created by Guest
Created on Oct 23, 2024

Multiple dependencies in DWC Plan View

I would like to suggest that the 'Plan View' functionality for DWC on z/OS gets improved.
Today when it's used and you search for a specific job stream or application, the Plan View only shows one level of predecessors.
The only way to see an entire chain with predecessors and cross-dependencies, is to do a wildcard search for the entire plan.
In an enterprise environment, we might have hundreds of different predecessors and cross-dependencies and the Plan View quickly gets unusable, as all that's represented in the graphical interface are lines everywhere.

When then searching for a specific application and only one predecessor is shown, the point of using it is lost, since our Batch supporters cannot find what predecessor in a chain might hold up a specific job chain.  

I would like so suggest that when searching for job streams and applications, that the user would also be able to decide how many predecessors should be returned by the search (i.e +1,+2+3....). This would greatly improve this functionality for the better
 

Idea priority Low