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Workload Automation

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Add OracleLinux9 support for IWS10.1

OracleLinux9 has become the standard in customer environments.However, FTA10.1.0.5 does not support OracleLinux9. https://www.ibm.com/software/reports/compatibility/clarity-reports/report/html/osForProduct?deliverableId=3DBCDF8AEB8C4871A77E4DFE937...
4 months ago in Workload Automation 2 Delivered

The JSON Audit files should be valid JSON

The audit files that IWS stores in JSON format may not always be valid JSON documents. Specifically, the value for "actionDependentContents" may make the document unparsable. For example, in this record, the quotes in the value of "actionDependent...
4 months ago in Workload Automation 1 Delivered

Historical reporting capabilities for Kubernetes internal Cloud workstations

We would like the ability to identify, by running a report or a query, to see if an existing Kubernetes internal Cloud workstation is currently being used. We are specifically looking for historical information on: (1) the last time the agent wa...
4 months ago in Workload Automation 1 Delivered

Add operator instruction for jobs and jobstreams as Z workload Scheduler

We ask to have the possibility to define the operator instructions in the product, as there is for the Z version. As an alternative solution, we ask to be able to see the comments field of the jobs and job streams in the current plan by all the dw...
10 months ago in Workload Automation 1 Delivered

Change the color schema of the DWC to help differentiate between prod and non-prod instances, potentially open in the same web browser.

I would like to see a way to very easily see a visual difference between the production instance of the DWC and the non-production instance of the DWC. Often times those two URLs are open in the same browser, just different tabs. We are noticing s...
about 1 year ago in Workload Automation 1 Delivered

Remove 1,000 character limitation on the comment field of job stream objects

Prior to IWS v10.1, there was not a 1000 character limit. We often exceed this limit due to taking notes on each change to a stream. This is a business practice which we have used for over 10 years. Ever since the upgrade, we cannot add any more n...
over 1 year ago in Workload Automation 4 Delivered

DWC : isLate flag for job streams

isLate flag exists for querying late jobs in the plan but does not exist for job streams.
almost 2 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Delivered

Add filters with list of Jobstreams is missing in DWC

We created filters as per sections mentioned in the attachment which are helpful in monitoring SLA specific jobstreams. Users will be monitoring those filters (sections) for every 5 to 10 minutes to see how the Jobstreams in those sections or filt...
about 2 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Delivered

In DWC, Provide Excel kind of filter option in monitor workload field results, add exclusion option in monitor workload --> Object type job --> Edit option , Enable dragging option in the monitor workload results to take action on bulk job instances

We need below features in DWC future release, Provide Excel kind of filter option in monitor workload field results. For example, in excel sheet using filter option, we can select or unselect the entries based on our requirement. Actually, we are ...
about 2 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Delivered

Containerised distributed Dynamic Agent support for Remote Gateways

Installations of IWS/d 9.X & 10.1 in a virtualised or physcal infrastructure currently supports remote GW for Dynamic Agents (see link below). Containerised Dynamic agents do not support this configuration as the GW is hard coded to localhost....
over 2 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Delivered