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Workload Automation

To be able to send events directly to ServiceNow Event manager to trigger alerts and create incidents based on those events.

Some companies don't allow writes directly to the incidents table, so this is an alternative method so send information to Servicenow
5 months ago in Workload Automation Delivered

In job logs, blank out or remove the encrypted password when using advanced job types

It is another level of security and privacy that some customers need.
5 months ago in Workload Automation Delivered

Support for nested Job Streams

We came to IWS from Automic. One feature that we miss is the ability to create nested Job Streams. For example: SCHEDULE WS#JS_CHILDON REQUEST:WS#CHILD1DOCOMMAND ... END SCHEDULE WS#JS_PARENTON RUNCYCLE RC1 "FREQ=DAILY"( AT 0900 ):WS#JOBADOCOMMAND...
7 months ago in Workload Automation Delivered

TS019982564 - add support for SFTP protocol to File Transfer job

After back and forth with support it was confirmed that I won't be able to create file transfer job and use SFTP protocol. The protocol has been introduced almost 30 years ago and is de-facto standard used by our external partners. Please add supp...
10 months ago in Workload Automation Delivered

Require Oracle DB Maintenance Script for TWS.

Require Oracle DB Maintenance Script for TWS similar to what is shipped along with the product for DB2 database.
10 months ago in Workload Automation Delivered

Reorder the list of jobs in a stream

We are using Dynamic Workload Console 10.2.2 It would be nice if we could easily change the order of jobs listed in a job stream. When we set up a new stream we add jobs in the order they are going to run then set up dependencies. If we later add ...
10 months ago in Workload Automation Delivered

AWS S3 event (filewatcher)

S3 job already exists but there is no built-in functionality similar to S3 event/filewatcher, allowing us to monitor objects in buckets (for example creation, changes, etc.) thus we would like you to consider adding this in the format of S3 event ...
10 months ago in Workload Automation Delivered

URGENT - Add "NESTING DETAIL" and "NUMBER OF NESTINGS" parameters to RestAPI used by WAPL jobs in order to mitigate slow response times related to networking. this IDEA has been suggested by IBM support

UNIPOL needs to use DWC REST API queries in order to monitor his TWS scheduling infrastructure. Specifically, he wants to check the status of a jobstream in the current plan, and all the jobs it contains. In case a job is not COMPLETED, we launch ...
11 months ago in Workload Automation Delivered

Add support for AWS RDS for postgresql or AWS aurora

10.2.3 introduced the support for postgresql - we would like to extend it to include AWS RDS for postgresql or AWS aurora to make the product more cloud friendly.
11 months ago in Workload Automation Delivered

Enhance Google Cloud Storage (GCS) Integration Plugin to Support Uploading Files into Specific Bucket Folders

Currently, the Google Cloud Storage integration plugin (version 10.2.0.04) successfully uploads files directly to the root level of a specified GCS bucket. However, it lacks the capability to upload files into a specific folder (or prefix/subdirec...
about 1 year ago in Workload Automation Delivered