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Workload Automation

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DWC : isLate flag for job streams

isLate flag exists for querying late jobs in the plan but does not exist for job streams.
about 1 year ago in Workload Automation 1 Delivered

Containerised distributed Dynamic Agent support for Remote Gateways

Installations of IWS/d 9.X & 10.1 in a virtualised or physcal infrastructure currently supports remote GW for Dynamic Agents (see link below). Containerised Dynamic agents do not support this configuration as the GW is hard coded to localhost....
over 1 year ago in Workload Automation 1 Delivered

PATCH method in the Restful plugin

We need PATCH method to be included in the IWA restful plugin for partial update to the resource. The current plugin does not support the Patch method.
almost 2 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Delivered

Need to Implement Strong encryption/encoding mechanism

The application uses weak base 64 encoding for sensitive parameters. Base 64 encoding can be easily decoded and the sensitive details can be seen in clear text. It is recommended to implement strong encryption/encoding mechanism by the security team.
over 2 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Delivered

We would like Workload Automation to keep track of last time a user logged in.

We would like to audit user access and be able to ask users that have not logged into Workload Automation after some period of time if they still need access.
over 2 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Delivered

To connect to Kubernetes, connection information was given in a config file. How will we need to proceed in the multi-cluster working structure?

We have two kubernates clusters in production environment. We want the plugin to have the ability to deploy jobs into multiple clusters. You can think of this process as a load-balancer. Currently, we can only give a single kubernates cluster conf...
almost 3 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Delivered

Setting a TWS date parameter within Kubernates yaml file path on TWS script

We need to pass parameters to JCL during runtime, not only for a job, but for all jobs in general. Since the job is created directly by Kubernetes via the plug-in, the parameter given from JCL needs to be transferred to Job.yaml.
almost 3 years ago in Workload Automation 2 Delivered

Add back missing info from Workload Designer

In IWS 9.3, Workload Designer, when looking for an object (a Job for example), it would give basic information in the search results - Job name, Workstation, Job type, last updated (or created) and who last updated it. In 9.5 the last updated and ...
almost 3 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Delivered

Retain init.cfg custom user configuration when upgrading Dynamic Agent

If people are not aware that the init.cfg is overwritten when the IWS Agent is upgraded as I was not aware, then after the upgrade event rules could stop working, e.g. event rules which monitor network shares. I feel as this would benefit everyone...
about 3 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Delivered

DWC Login page modification for 9.5

This feature was available in all the previous version of TWS. And this idea will benefit all the organization who wants to customize their DWC login page according to their requirements.
over 3 years ago in Workload Automation 8 Delivered