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Status Future consideration
Created by Guest
Created on Jul 1, 2021

Specify relative time for Operation Not Started alerts

The Operation Not Started Alert/Action options were useful enhancements to IBM Z Workload Scheduler V9R5. But they can't be used in all scenarios.

We have IzWS applications that run multiple times daily at random times usually event triggered (e.g. due to a log filling). In some cases it is critical that the application completes in a reasonable time (e.g. so that the log can be reused). A static time of day based Operation Not Started Alert cannot be used for these.

For applications such as this it would be useful to be able to specify a relative time (e.g. x minutes after input arrival time) for the Operation Not Started Alert.

If this enhancement were accepted it could also be applied to the Operation Deadline Action and Operation Not Started Action options.

Idea priority Medium