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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 ...
about 1 month 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...
about 1 month ago in Workload Automation Future consideration

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...
4 months ago in Workload Automation Future consideration

Time Out when large access error encountered

As discussed in TS021210446.... We had an issue when a user put in the command -m sched @#AWSBIA291I Total objects: 88813AWSBIA288I Total objects updated: 0 This was done in error, but TWS hung for over 20 mins not submitting jobs on agents/pools....
5 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...
5 months ago in Workload Automation Future consideration

Create a new Windows Agent install process using something other than VBSCRIPT

VBSCRIPT is being decommissioned by Microsoft and therefore A new Windows Agent install process is needed to go forward into the future for the Windows Agent Software install process.
5 months ago in Workload Automation Future consideration

Generate warnings when referencing a variable that hasn't been defined

It would be helpful if when adding or updating a job definition that references a variable, a warning should be generated if that variable hasn't been defined. This would be similar to the AWSJPL523W that is already generated by MakePlan in the me...
6 months ago in Workload Automation Future consideration

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...
7 months ago in Workload Automation Future consideration

Using Orchestration Queries (OQL) from Orchestration Command Line Interface (OCLI)

OQL is a powerful language to monitor scheduling objects both in the plan and model. It's usage with the Orchestration Monitor and REST API v2 allows customers to monitor and control scheduling objects today. Most customers control IWS using scrip...
8 months ago in Workload Automation Future consideration

DWC to support proper high-availability

We have a load balancer in front of multiple DWC instances. The problem is that session affinity is required because of how the DWC stores user sessions. So, when one of the instances needs to be restarted, all logged in users to that instance are...
9 months ago in Workload Automation Future consideration

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