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Workload Automation

Greater visibility of AT times in the DWC

The integration of AT times as an explicit, visual dependency within the Dynamic Workload Console (DWC) would bridge a critical gap between time-based scheduling and dependency logic. Currently, an At time often acts as a silent gatekeeper; a job ...
4 months ago in Workload Automation Future consideration

Easier view of "Carry Forward" jobs from the previous Plan

Integrating a Carried Forward indicator directly into the Monitor Job Streams and Orchestration Monitor views would fundamentally transform how operators manage day-to-day plan transitions. Currently, identifying job streams that failed to complet...
4 months ago in Workload Automation Future consideration

PeopleSoft / PeopleTools plugin / job type available from Automation Hub

The creation of a PeopleSoft / PeopleTools specific job type would help with schedulers ensuring accuracy creating job definitions, especially those using the DWC. At this time, a specific syntax needs to be followed in order for a PeopleSoft job ...
about 1 month ago in Workload Automation Future consideration

Description of the workstations viewable from anywhere other than just "List Workstation" view

We utilise Dynamic pools that submit jobs to available resources (Actual workstations) within that dynamic pool, when a worksation that is a resource of a dynamic pool goes down OPS often check what batch is scheduled against that workstation, oft...
4 months ago in Workload Automation Future consideration

Enhance Merge Logs with Folder Information

Folder information is not currently included in the merge log, which makes job analysis difficult—especially when logs are parsed and shipped to centralised logging platforms like Elastic. Including folder details in the merge log would significan...
5 months ago in Workload Automation Future consideration

Allow EDIT of a "shared DASHBOARD" to the DWC ADMIN Group

We are using standard DWC Dashboards that a "USER001" from the ADMIN group , inlcudes me has defined SHARED operational Dashboards, that are in USE every day be EVERY Operation colleague. However IF i wanted to change the standard "shared" Operati...
about 2 months ago in Workload Automation Future consideration

Job statistics page missing from DWC post 10.2.6 upgrade

We have large user community with Read only access to the scheduler. The jobs statistic page is one of the frequently used feature that has been removed with 10.2.6 upgrade. we would like to have that page to be added back into the Workload Design...
8 months ago in Workload Automation Future consideration

Install new Job types / Plug-ins into your distributed IWS Domain directly from the DWC

Leverage the power of the Automation Hub directly from your IWS Dynamic Workload Console to build more robust, agile, and future-ready automation solutions. With over 150 plug-ins the Automation Hub is rapidly expanding and allowing customers to i...
about 1 year ago in Workload Automation Future consideration

add support to run DA agents using Group Managed Service Accounts in Windows

At the moment it's possible to specify AD account, by specifying -uname and -domain parameters during twsinst execution. We would like to request the ability to use Group Managed Service Account as well - twsinst would need to allow us to not prov...
about 1 year ago in Workload Automation Future consideration

Generate an IWS Network Topology from the DWC

We have a very large IWS environment (over 700 workstations, 64 domains). It would be extremely beneficial for us if we could automatically generate a visual topology of our IWS network. Ideally, this would help show the domains and domain manager...
3 months ago in Workload Automation Future consideration