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Workload Automation

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Event Rule file detection at start up

File monitoring in Event Rules currently does not detect pre-existing files at startup. I would like to option to have file be detected at monman startup.The PMR field does not accept the new Sales Force case number it is (TS001148396)
over 5 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Dynamic Critical Path DCP

Provide a parameter to desensitize the triggering of EQQP23I Potential Risk Alert Current functionality: Potential risk alerts trigger when a job on the critical network is late, or on abend even if the critical jobs deadline time is many hours in...
about 7 years ago in Workload Automation 2 Not under consideration

Workload Designer: ability to change the displayed order of Jobs within Job Streams

Currently when adding new jobs to a job stream they end up at the end of the list regardless of where the job goes dependecy-wise. But the job stream can be more clear to read if the job is placed according to its dependencies. This is a request t...
almost 9 years ago in Workload Automation 2 Future consideration

Scheduling EJBs on IWS

Client has the need to schedule remote EJBs on Application Servers using IWS and for this need an interface that they can browse for available EJBs and schedule the job as other IWS jobs.
almost 6 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Planned for future release

Add ability to have common database credentials for jobs

Currently when database jobs are implemented, the DB login credentials have to be entered for each and every job. In the event of a password change in the database, this can require substantial manual effort and coordination to address. Provide an...
over 1 year ago in Workload Automation 1 Functionality already exists

Able to associate tags on scheduling objects

Able to add tags such as job owner, severity, queue name. Those tags would be usefull to filter out, send notifications, create incidents etc.
over 1 year ago in Workload Automation 0 Planned for future release

RESTART and CLEANUP on distributed d-centric agent

Facilitate adoption for d-centric agents, By allowing restart and cleanup. For usample we can use datastore to capture the output.
over 1 year ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Jnext Enhancement - Bring objects from DB to Plan without Jnext

1) We want to isolate any faulty FTAs from the current plan without the need of scratching it or refreshing it. If we find some FTAs are having issues after the generation of production plan which causes impact to the master, we should have some c...
over 4 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

attach the joblog to the email for failing job

on SAAS, customer is requiring that in the email received when job is failing, the joblog is also included in the email as an attachment.
over 7 years ago in Workload Automation 2 Not under consideration

Exporting data from DWC

The feature of exporting any details from DWC to specific formatted file, say a .csv file is not available. Addition of this will be of great help for operations/schedulers across the board
about 6 years ago in Workload Automation 3 Not under consideration