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Change the CIT Scanner installation path of the Agent on Windows machines

My customer has correctly installed an Agent 9.5.0.7 on a Windows 2016/2019 machine. After receiving error notifications for unavailable resource, they realized that the Scanner installed for the Agent had been deleted. Deepening the problem they ...
11 months ago in Workload Automation Under review

Environment variable to indicate if a job is a RERUN

It would be very useful if when a job runs, there was an environment variable that indicated whether the job is a RERUN or not. Maybe, set a UNISON_RERUN to 0 on the initial run and then increment it for each successive RERUN of the job instance. ...
9 months ago in Workload Automation Under review

I want to use success output condition for every job possible - currently it works well only if job log is small.

I want to use success output condition for every job possible - currently it works well only if job log is small. There is no information about that in documentation however and it caused a big delay issue in development on my project. We had to r...
3 months ago in Workload Automation Under review

Restore advanced search capabilities in Workload Designer to match previous "Manage Workload Definitions" functionality.

Why is it useful? The current Workload Designer search functionality has regressed compared to the previous "Manage Workload Definitions" interface. Users now face two major limitations: Workstation Name search – Previously, users could directly s...
2 months ago in Workload Automation Under review

Fix incorrect display of cancel status on rerun jobs when the original job is cancelled.

Why is it useful? There is a display logic error in Monitor Workload when handling cancelled jobs that have reruns. Currently, if a job has multiple reruns (e.g., one original job + two reruns), and the user cancels the original job, the cancel st...
2 months ago in Workload Automation Under review

Add a user preference to default "Show all rerun instances" in Monitor Workload queries.

Why is it useful? Currently, when users query jobs in Monitor Workload, they must manually select the "Show all rerun instances" option each time. This repetitive action reduces efficiency, especially for users who frequently need to view full rer...
2 months ago in Workload Automation Under review

Add an "Show All" option for items per page in Workload Designer list views.

Why is it useful? In the current Workload Designer, the list view limits users to a maximum of 250 items per page, with no option to show all items at once. As shown in the attached screenshot, users must manually click through multiple pages when...
2 months ago in Workload Automation Under review

Enhance IWS UNIX/Linux Installer to Support Domain IDs Without Strict POSIX Group Dependency

Enable the IWS UNIX/Linux installer to support Domain IDs in LDAP/SSSD environments without failing due to POSIX group resolution issues by reducing strict dependency on OS-level group mapping or providing configurable group handling. Why is this ...
3 months ago in Workload Automation Under review

Support RDS DB2 for MDM DB & DWC DB

Planning to deploy IWS to ROSA environment and there we want to use RDS Db2 for MDM and DWC. In the knowledge center, RDS for Oracle, RDS for MSSQL and RDS Postgres is documented, but RDS for Db2 is not listed. Could you support the RDS for Db2 also?
5 months ago in Workload Automation Under review

Correct the vague error messages output from twsinst

While upgrading FTAs from IWS 10.1.5 to IWS 10.2.3 we received the following vague and totally unhelpful output from the backup step. Wed 05 Nov 2025 01:38:39 PM MST backupInstance begin Wed 05 Nov 2025 01:38:39 PM MST /usr/lib/maestro/TWS/LINUX_X...
6 months ago in Workload Automation Under review