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Status Future consideration
Workspace IBM Z Workload Scheduler
Created by Guest
Created on Mar 20, 2026

RELATED IDEAS

WAPL - ALLDEPS function

Due to changing scheduling and changing requirements it would be a plus to be able to query ALLDEPS for a certain operation in the CP, perhaps up until a certain nesting level to keep performance impact limited.

This can be a full list of all dependencies and/or a number representing how many i.e. successors there are. This value can even be set once per operation during a replan/extend.

There are different ways possible to assign a priority or criticality to an operation, but the amount of successors an operation has, has very often been overlooked.

A "non-critical" job abend that has 2 successors and runs in a calm night window will not create a huge impact when it's restarted during the day. But lets say that an operation has 10.000 successors and becuase of an abend at 01.00, which is restarted at 10:00, all those 10.000 operations run during a very busy 'online' window. This might cause higher stress on the machine or, in the case of limited initiator availability for "non-ciritical" jobs, an extra delay.

If it would be clear for i.e. an operator or an automation that a non-critical job might cause impact to 10.000 other operations, that operator/automation might take different actions.

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