IBM Z Workload Scheduler Small Programming Enhancements released in April 2025

The following features were provided with IBM Z Workload Scheduler small programming enhancements (SPEs) released for Version 10.2, in April 2025 (APAR PH64943).

Listing the successor shadow jobs bound to a job in your CP
From the ISPF panels you can now list the shadow jobs that are bound to a local job in your current plan, thus enabling you to evaluate the impact of performing the following actions on the local job instance:
  • Browsing an occurrence external dependencies
  • Browsing an operation dependencies
  • Browsing an operation external dependencies
  • Deleting an occurrence
  • Deleting an operation
  • Setting an occurrence to complete
  • Rerunning an occurrence
  • Setting an occurrence to waiting
For details, see Listing the shadow jobs bound to a job in the CP.
A more efficient flow of data between the Z controller and Federator
To enhance the processing of the events sent from the Z controller to the Federator, in the MIRROPTS statement you can now set THREADNUM to define the number of threads used by the DB Filler task and SOCKETNUM to define the number of sockets per thread.
ZWS-I-31 Update sample code in line with product changes
The EQQJVXIT sample exit stored in SEQQSAMP has been updated with the latest DSECT for the current plan record layout.