Small Programming Enhancements released in July 2018

The following features were provided with IBM® Z Workload Scheduler small programming enhancements (SPEs) released for Version 9.3, in July 2018.

  • If you submit a JCL when the WLM scheduling environment is not available, you can specify that the JCL is replaced in the JS file when the scheduling environment becomes available again. In this way, any variables contained in the JCL are updated with the most up-to-date values.

    For more details, see the SERESETJS parameter in OPCOPTS.

  • To have the IBM Z Workload Scheduler Agent agent (z-centric) communicate with the z/OS controller through a proxy, you can configure the proxy properties in the JobManager.ini file and ROUTOPTS initialization statement.

    For more details, see Configuring the connection between the IBM Z Workload Scheduler Agent and Z controller through a proxy and ROUTOPTS.

  • The operation-status-change exit (EQQUX007) is also called when an operation changes status to Deleted (D), or Started (S) with the extended status set to Executing.

  • In the filemonitor utility, you can set the -modificationCompletedTime option also for the -event {fileCreated} argument, to determine when the fileCreated event is to be sent.

    When this option is specified, if a file is created, the event is not sent immediately, but only after the interval of time specified by -modificationCompletedTime<seconds> has elapsed, and during which no subsequent changes were made to the file, which includes the file being deleted and recreated with the same name.

    For more details, see Checking for file changes with filemonitor.

  • With the Dynamic Workload Console V9.4, Fix Pack 4 the JSR 352 Java Batch plug-in is now supported.