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Workload Automation

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Disable what-if analysis on DWC for Z Engine

There is no option to disable what-if analysis on DWC for Z Workload Scheduler. For the Distributed masters there is a global option to disable what-if, but a similar option is not available in Z workload scheduler. Please provide with an option i...
9 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Locate Dependency Loops in DWC(Show Plan View)

This makes Dependency Loops graphically visible in the Show Plan View option
almost 2 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Allow ABEND of FAILED jobs in USERJOBS to be marked as SUCC or CANCELED

Starting 9.4 when a JOB gets put into USRJOBS Operations cannot cancel or mark is as SUCC when it fails. Hence in every console it shows up as an issue even after the issue is resolved. This can make the automated or manual management of batch dif...
over 2 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Would like IWS/IWA to support Postgres as a backend database

Would like IWS/IWA to support Postgres as a backend database.
almost 3 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Not under consideration

Extended jobname in DWC

Customers running both the mainframe and distributed workloads often search for extended jobnames and require a view to display it
almost 3 years ago in Workload Automation 2 Future consideration

Restrict the number of RestAPI calls made to TWSz

System : IBM Workload Scheduler and Dynamic Workload consoleActor : DWC users We use DWC RestAPI to interact with IWSz for monitoring and batch operations (submit, restart jobs, etc.) for Mainframe as well as Distributed jobs. Also application tea...
about 3 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Request to Add LDAP/NT/OAUTH Authentication Types to IBM Workload Scheduler - RESTful ,Webservices API Jobs

For using IWS RESTful , webservices jobs, the user' credentials have “Basic authentication with httpsurlconnection” to connect TWS REST endpoints. Request to Add LDAP/NT/OAUTH Authentication Types to IBM Workload Scheduler - RESTful ,Webservices A...
almost 4 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Ability to add dependencies to individual run cycles

Ability to add dependencies to individual run cycles. Currently can't. See highlighted example below of what is required. We have a jobstream with multiple runcycles, but want one of those runcycle to follow another jobstream, not them all. We hav...
almost 4 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

ESTIMATED END of a critical chain in real time

Currently the CP does not update in real time the ESTIMATED END of a critical chain. Considering that we now use the 'CRITICAL JOBS' panel as the only forecasting tool for what concerns the conclusion of critical batches, having the information re...
almost 4 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Planned for future release

Extend IWS REST to contain more basic modificaton operations

Please add rest methods for IWS 9.5 to be able easily to do: Add a job into an existing jobstream – that should be a method with few parametersRemove a job from an existing jobstream - that should be a method with few parametersAdd a dependency in...
over 4 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration