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8 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Not under consideration

Cancelation of WebSphere batch job (wsgrid.bat) on Windows should invoke shutdown hook i java

Cancelling a WebSphere Batch job on Windows, a java.exe process started from the wsgrid.bat only kills the java process. The shutdown hook in java is not called and the job/step i the websphere bacth container is not interrupted/stopped. This is "...
over 7 years ago in Workload Automation 3 Not under consideration

Critical job should part of error handler layout

The batch operators need an indication in the error handler layout, which job is most critical, so troubleshooting can be started with that one. If two or more jobs are very close with latest start time, a critical path indicator is needed so oper...
over 4 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Planned for future release

Would like to see an intermediate state between enabled and draft for IWA schedules

Most of our application teams have their schedules set up in the non-prod environments to mimic production, including the run cycles. This simplifies the production promotions as we can copy the objects and change the workstations they run on for ...
over 1 year ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Variable that has the mm/dd/yyyy format and at time = hh:mm

zWorkload Scheduler provides the &ODY1 variable to populate a date when creating email alerts. We would like to see variables that allow for a formatted date and time, to be included in the email alert. For example: We would like to see a vari...
over 1 year ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

HashiCorp integration with IWS for secure connection between DB and IWS master

There should be a way to intigrate HashiCorp with IWS .We saw security team in organation asking to use Hashicorp to secure the connection/authentication between IWS master and oracle database as we are using XML file to pass password/Username (ev...
8 months ago in Workload Automation 2 Future consideration

Add historical reporting features available on IWS to IWS on Cloud.

IWS on Cloud (SaaS) does not provide the historical reporting features available in the on-premise versions. The "historical reports" features should be available to SaaS customers too. The priority is on "job run history".
over 4 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Connect IWS to CyberArk to allow CLI to function.

Connect IWS to CyberArk, to allow checking of password change from vault, to alleviate static passwords, used within the conman and composer CLI
over 1 year ago in Workload Automation 0 Planned for future release

We would like event rules to trigger off of object changes in the database and in the plan

We would like to allow application teams to perform updates in our production environment and we would like to have an event rule trigger when objects are updated in the database and/or in the plan and then send the following information either th...
over 1 year ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Cancel a "cancel pending" state in the current plan

Possible to Cancel a Job in "Cancel Pending" state in the current plan because for some reason, a couple of hour after the switch plan, we want it finally to run.
over 3 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Planned for future release