Small Programming Enhancements released in November 2017
The following features were provided with IBM® Z Workload Scheduler small programming enhancements (SPEs) released for Version 9.3, in November 2017.
- When your current plan includes more than one million operations, the scalability, reliability,
and efficiency of processing can be significantly optimized by extending the available storage of
the controller and daily plan batch. By setting the required parameters in the BATCHOPT and JTOPTS
statements, two data spaces are created and used as an additional support to the available storage,
at current plan generation time and when the CP is dynamically modified (MCP).
For detailed information, see Managing a current plan with more than one million operations.
- Any updates you make to the operation text field of the current plan is stored in the auditing reports.
- The reporting feature supports JDBC Driver 4.0 (db2jcc4.jar).
- With the Dynamic Workload Console V9.4, Fix Pack 2
the following enhancements have been implemented:
- Specifying dependencies that link a job to a job stream or a job stream to a job: You can
specify that jobs or job streams are dependent on other jobs or job streams, as follows:
- A job depends on another job
- A job depends on a job stream
- A job stream depends on a job
- A job stream depends on another job stream
- Setting the Manually Hold, NOP, and Critical options in the AD database: You can now set the Manually Hold, NOP, and Critical options for a job directly in the Application Description database, from either the Options or Variable Duration and Deadline section.
- IBM Z Workload Scheduler REST API: you are provided with a set of fully functional APIs that are implemented based on Representational State Transfer (REST) services. The REST APIs help you easily integrate workload scheduling capabilities with external products and solutions. The same product functionality covered by the existing J2EE APIs is available with the REST APIs. The REST APIs are programming language independent and favor easier network configuration and firewall traversal. They allow you to exploit heterogeneous environments and provide new automation opportunities with direct impact on productivity. For information about the REST APIs and the possibility to try them out on Swagger Docs, see Developer's Guide: Driving IBM Z Workload Scheduler.
- Specifying dependencies that link a job to a job stream or a job stream to a job: You can
specify that jobs or job streams are dependent on other jobs or job streams, as follows: