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Workload Automation

Enable Azure Data Factory (ADF) and cloud-based jobs in IBM Workload Scheduler to support multi-region failover

Currently, IBM Workload Scheduler Azure Data Factory (ADF) job definitions are tightly coupled to a single Azure region. The primary or initial job definition does not support automatic or easy failover to another Azure location in the event of a ...
4 months ago in Workload Automation Delivered

Retry Capability on Network Gateway Issues for Azure Datafactory jobs

This change is intended to address one of the issues we are currently experiencing with ADF jobs. Due to transient cloud-related issues, TWS ADF plugin jobs occasionally fail with errors such as the one shown below. This typically occurs after the...
4 months ago in Workload Automation Delivered

DWC should fully support IBM DB2 databases at database jobs for stored procedures

At the moment the (documented) functionality at database jobs for stored procedures seems to be limited to four data types (DATE, DECIMAL, INTEGER, VARCHAR) according to the last (and only) available documentation about from version 9.3.0 (Databas...
10 months ago in Workload Automation Delivered

Feature to list and delete all the jobstreams with expired "valid to" dates.

This is a request for a feature to list and delete all the jobstreams that has expired "valid to" dates. I would like a feature in the DWC UI and also in the composer command line to create a list of jobstreams that has expired "valid to" dates. I...
over 1 year ago in Workload Automation Delivered

In job logs, blank out or remove the encrypted password when using advanced job types

It is another level of security and privacy that some customers need.
8 months ago in Workload Automation Delivered

to make maxRetries & retryDelay settings configurable in the ADF plugin

to make maxRetries & retryDelay settings configurable in the ADF plugin
4 months ago in Workload Automation Delivered

Require Oracle DB Maintenance Script for TWS.

Require Oracle DB Maintenance Script for TWS similar to what is shipped along with the product for DB2 database.
about 1 year ago in Workload Automation Delivered

To be able to send events directly to ServiceNow Event manager to trigger alerts and create incidents based on those events.

Some companies don't allow writes directly to the incidents table, so this is an alternative method so send information to Servicenow
8 months ago in Workload Automation Delivered

Reorder the list of jobs in a stream

We are using Dynamic Workload Console 10.2.2 It would be nice if we could easily change the order of jobs listed in a job stream. When we set up a new stream we add jobs in the order they are going to run then set up dependencies. If we later add ...
about 1 year ago in Workload Automation Delivered

Support for nested Job Streams

We came to IWS from Automic. One feature that we miss is the ability to create nested Job Streams. For example: SCHEDULE WS#JS_CHILDON REQUEST:WS#CHILD1DOCOMMAND ... END SCHEDULE WS#JS_PARENTON RUNCYCLE RC1 "FREQ=DAILY"( AT 0900 ):WS#JOBADOCOMMAND...
10 months ago in Workload Automation Delivered