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Functionality to export,edit,import IWS Database Objects in Excel (or some other form of spreadsheets)

This is an idea to add a functionality to export/import IWS Database Objects to/from IWS DB. Many IWS customers are requesting a functionality to export IWS Database Objects to a spreadsheet, edit them, then bulk import the objects back to IWS DB....
3 days ago in Workload Automation 0 Submitted

Support for multiple database hosts for Docker Compose deployments

In the Docker Compose setup for IBM Workload Automation (TWS and DWC), the DB_HOSTNAME variable accepts only one host. We have a database with a primary and backup host for failover, and in non-container setups (e.g., CLIConfig.properties), multip...
3 days ago in Workload Automation 0 Submitted

How to find pool/d-pool name for a dynamic agent, based on a command or SQL query

In order to find out a pool for a given dynamic agent, the current method is to take a dump of all CPU definitions and then search for the existing pool associated with the agent, however in huge environments where adding agents to pool is a frequ...
2 days ago in Workload Automation 0 Submitted

Configure SSO through UI for all customers

Today configuring SSO involves editing CR's, etc which will always lead to mistakes and for SaaS customers opening support tickets which in turn need SRE involvement to accomplish the task. On-prem, it involves user error. My idea here is to be ab...
1 day ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Submitted

Possibility to create (more) interactive Boards at Dynamic Workload Console

To increase acceptance and usability of IBM Workload Scheduler the graphical user interface (Dynamic Workload Console) should be enhanced by the possibility to create (more) interactive boards. At the moment it seems not to be possible to create b...
15 days ago in Workload Automation 0 Submitted

Make additional attributes available for column customization and filtering

Being able to make additional elements and information available for sorting, export, and filtering would greatly enhance navigation and decision making in the platform. Options to display additional info. i.e. entity tags, account tags, etc. Near...
9 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Submitted

Turbonomic Parking: Allow for a start date in future for parking

Currently, when you attach a schedule - it takes effect immediately. The idea would be to allow parking schedules to have a start and stop date - much like regular schedules.
9 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Submitted

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...
7 days ago in Workload Automation 0 Submitted

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...
about 1 month ago in Workload Automation 1 Submitted

Add Entity and Action UUIDs as an available column in the Search and Actions tables

The process for getting to this information easily for 50+ or even 1000+ items when utilizing the APIs to do metadata tagging is very cumbersome and requires multiple navigation clicks to move from one item to another. Making this an available cus...
9 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Submitted