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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...
3 months ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Add functionality to event rule to include a variable for the dynamic url for the job log

We would like to add the dynamic url to the job log for any job. We envision this might be best facilitated as one of the selectable variables for event rules. That way we could include in the body of the sendmail action, or to the payload sent to...
3 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Static visualisation

Enable the option for a static visualization, allowing the visualizations to retain data e.g. for the last 7 days, 30 days, or the past year, even when the date is changed.
about 2 months ago in Apptio / Apptio BI 0 Future consideration

Plugin to monitor the creation/modification of files in BLOB (azure)

There is a filewatcher program that monitors files on on-premises servers, allowing jobs to consume these files. But there is nothing similar to monitor files in the Azure cloud - BLOB
about 1 year ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Apptio BI with Waterfall Charts

Our team uses the most for budgeting and forecasting presentation is waterfall chart unfortunately it's not available in Apptio BI. If this could be added, it will be very helpful with our analysis and presentation. Thanks!
3 months ago in Apptio / Apptio BI 0 Future consideration

3+ Object Reporting

Currently reporting is limited to only 2 objects in one report but there is an increasing ask for multiple object reporting for CIO/CFO detailed reporting. The ask is to increase the number of objects to 3 at the least to enable more granular vie...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio BI 0 Future consideration

Jobs failed due to Liberty restart needs to be reprocessed post activity instead of going into FAIL.

Dynamic jobs are put in FAIL state after a Liberty or broker restart if at the moment of the restart they were in WAIT/INTRO state (being processed by the broker component but not yet sent to an agent for job submission). This causes lots of manua...
2 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

We want UNIX/WINDOWS job to set TWS JOB to SUCC or ABEND state bassed on the output in Job logs/output.

We want to use this functionality- (Using the variable "this.stdlist" to set TWS JOB to SUCC or ABEND state) with Unix/Windows Job definition. Currently this functionality only works with executable job types. All the Jobs types have advance optio...
4 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Customisable colours in Apptio BI Report Visualisations

Currently all Apptio BI report visualisations have fixed default colours. For example for a bar chart the first bar is orange, the second is blue, the third is red etc. There are various situations where I need adjacent visualisations to have cons...
12 months ago in Apptio / Apptio BI 1 Future consideration

(Public) Support for gMSA accounts in IWS. Allow IWS to use gMSA accounts to execute jobs

(Public) gMSA for service accounts offer additional security and will not require manual updating of passwords. IWS currently requires standard user accounts (the Microsoft definition) to execute jobs, and not gMSA or sSMA accounts.
over 1 year ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration