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Workload Automation

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An option during the upgrade or uninstall of an agent to only choose the Dynamic Agent and not the FTA

During the installation of an agent, an option is available (-agent dynamic|fta|both) to choose which type of agent to install, either a Dynamic Agent (DA) or an Fault-Toerant Agent (FTA). A similar option must exist for upgrade (-update) and unin...
8 months ago in Workload Automation 2 Functionality already exists

Two-factor authentication for DWC and Remote CLI

Provide capability to enable two-factor authentication for DWC and Remote CLI, e.g. AD authentication and SecureID passcode
over 2 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Planned for future release

Support for containerized MDM and BKMDM on two different networks

Currently, creating two domain manager docker containers in one host machine, but on different docker networks, does not work. These DMs do not connect. Would like to have official support for having two containerized domain managers hosted on dif...
8 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Allow Event rules to be exported and imported.

This would be great for DEV and PROD systems. If I add many event rules for testing on DEV it would be great to be able to export them and import them into the PROD server.
about 1 year ago in Workload Automation 4 Functionality already exists

Improving Resiliency #3: gracefully resuming TWS services even after a sudden TWS stop

Event in a scenario of a sudden TWS Stop (abrupt kill of TWS services), the TWS Agent needs to have the capability of gracefully resuming its services after a failover.
9 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Change password option for users logging in to DWC console

Whenever a new user is logged in to DWC 9.5 ,there is no option to change his password . We dont have LDAP and presently we use file based authentication_config.xml only to change password.However,the user wants a "Change password" tab on his DWC ...
about 3 years ago in Workload Automation 3 Future consideration

Backup resource advisor URL

We have automated the agent install process in our environment completely, but when ever we perform the Disaster Recovery Test and switch to Backup master, all the new agent installs needs o updated manually (JobManager.ini) with the Backup master...
about 1 year ago in Workload Automation 1 Functionality already exists

We would like to control what information is written to the ../TWS/audit/plan files

We can see in the ../TWS/audit/plan the following messages. CONMAN |20231221|095021|20231221|095021| PLJOB |STDLIST | SERVERNNN| twsUSER| | SERVERNNN#Y-ABCDEFG-HIJ[(0800 12/21/23),(0AAAAAAAAAAZGYUW)].Y-QWERTY_JOBLOG sj YBSXLXNNN#0AAAAAAAAAAZGYUW.Y...
4 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Improving Resiliency #1: re-attaching "running OS processes" in secondary node after a failover

Whenever a failover happens, we need the Agents to be capable of re-attaching the running OS processes (attached to each individual SAP Jobs) when its services are restarted/failed-over from Site A to Site B.
9 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Would like Centralized Agent upgrade process to support deployment of iFixes

Currently, if we want to deploy an iFix for our FTA/DA agents we have to create an install script and then remote into each server and manually apply the iFix.It would be nice if installing an iFix was as easy as deploying a FixPack via the centra...
about 3 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration