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Increase available number of global job ids for LSF

Current job id is limited to 32b. With ever growing number of jobs and scaling of multi-cluster use, the job id should be extended beyond 32b to avoid frequent rollover situations and/or cases of redundant ids. Recommend to increase to 64b or more.
11 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 0 Planned for future release

Feasibility to kill the jobs if they are submitted directly in the remote cluster for multi cluster scenario

We can see remote cluster jobs with "bjobs -m <clustername> ..." from another cluster that is a member of MC, no matter the jobs are forwarded to remote cluster or submitted directly in the remote cluster, but we cannot kill the jobs if they...
4 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Cloud Bursting 1 Future consideration

Store PARM details when processing JCL

We are trying to identify when certain REXX scripts get called and this is stored as the PARM in the JCL. With the example below, I can see details for the inputs and outputs, but can't find 'OS#QTIM1' stored anywhere: //STEP020 EXEC PGM=IRXJCL,PA...
4 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

LSF must not ignore empty groups if they are managed by egroup

When running `badmin reconfig`, LSB ignores lines with empty groups: Aug 25 16:22:20 2025 11385 4 10.1 do_Groups: File /opt/lsf/conf/lsbatch/XXXX/configdir/lsb.users at line 50: No valid member in group <XXXX>; ignoring line this is ok for g...
4 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Other 1 Needs more information

Cobol Migration Assistance (Migration from 4.x to 6.x)

There are many customers still struggling to complete Cobol Migrations. For a few clients where its taking them long time to migrate COBOL 4.x to 6x. We can introduce a new feature/module within WCA4z to help customers migrate from COBOL 4.x to 6....
about 2 years ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Future consideration

If PCBs are passed as pointers, it is not supported in our PL1 compiler.

When clients want to see the relationship btw PL1 and IMSDB, it cannot shown. Since if PCBs are passed as pointers, it is not supported in our PL1 compiler. Background: In our client's current PL/I program, Program Communication Blocks (PCBs) are ...
11 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 1 Planned for future release

Cobol Explain to be saved as Annocations in AD

It would be useful to be able to save the COBOL Explain text as a annotation in ADDI. Today you can save/insert it as a comment in the cobol code. But if we could save it as an annotation in ADDI, then the explanation would also be available to bu...
about 1 year ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Planned for future release

Data Manager enhancement: Mark job as DONE after file reaches final destination

We want the main job to be marked as DONE only after the data file has been successfully transferred to the user-specified destination. Currently, with the integration of LSF and Data Manager, the main job is marked as DONE as soon as the 'bstage ...
7 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Data Management 1 Not under consideration

GSLA Resource Loaning - Add the ability to loan to specific users or projects

When a GSLA resource pool is defined for a specific type of workload, it is not practical or desirable to loan to just any other type of job profile. The work-a-round today is to include a resource limit definition to prevent this from occurring. ...
8 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 2 Future consideration

Support for associating files and data sets for COBOL programs that do not have file definitions

In COBOL programs (*1) that realizes file access by calling the subroutines responsible for the access method, there is a restriction that the file name to be accessed cannot be associated with the data set name. It is possible to define the assoc...
4 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review