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Workload Automation

Change the CIT Scanner installation path of the Agent on Windows machines

My customer has correctly installed an Agent 9.5.0.7 on a Windows 2016/2019 machine. After receiving error notifications for unavailable resource, they realized that the Scanner installed for the Agent had been deleted. Deepening the problem they ...
about 1 year ago in Workload Automation Planned for future release

Enable Azure Data Factory (ADF) and cloud-based jobs in IBM Workload Scheduler to support multi-region failover

Currently, IBM Workload Scheduler Azure Data Factory (ADF) job definitions are tightly coupled to a single Azure region. The primary or initial job definition does not support automatic or easy failover to another Azure location in the event of a ...
3 months ago in Workload Automation Planned for future release

Retry Capability on Network Gateway Issues for Azure Datafactory jobs

This change is intended to address one of the issues we are currently experiencing with ADF jobs. Due to transient cloud-related issues, TWS ADF plugin jobs occasionally fail with errors such as the one shown below. This typically occurs after the...
3 months ago in Workload Automation Planned for future release

Work Station Profile

Support SSO/MSO
about 1 month ago in Workload Automation Planned for future release

Environment variable to indicate if a job is a RERUN

It would be very useful if when a job runs, there was an environment variable that indicated whether the job is a RERUN or not. Maybe, set a UNISON_RERUN to 0 on the initial run and then increment it for each successive RERUN of the job instance. ...
11 months ago in Workload Automation Planned for future release

Amazon recently announced DB2 on RDS. We'd like to take advantages of AWS infrastructure and ensure DB2 RDS is fully supported with IWS.

Amazon recently announced DB2 on RDS. We'd like to take advantages of AWS infrastructure and ensure DB2 RDS is fully supported with IWS.I know that the product is supported by it's version and platform may not impact it. However, I'd like to ensur...
over 2 years ago in Workload Automation Planned for future release

Add support in REST API to set Dynamic agent offline or online.

Add support in REST API to set Dynamic agent offline or online.API should have same functionality as resource.sh. Similiar command to take DA offline (-setOffline) or online (-setOnline)./tws*****/ibm/TWA/TDWB/bin/resource.sh -usr TWS_ID -pwd xxxx...
over 5 years ago in Workload Automation Planned for future release

For Informatica Plugins for Distributed IWA, CDI PC and IDMC, develop the capability to assign multiple UserID/Password pairs authorized to authenticate the plug in

The client's environment spans multiple domains withing the distributed environment. In many instances, the barriers are business-driven: PHI and PII are prevalent throughout the business processes being configured. Informatica involves business d...
4 months ago in Workload Automation Planned for future release

Add clear visual indication of the current object type being viewed or searched in Workload Designer.

Why is it useful? In the current Workload Designer interface, there is no clear indicator showing which object type (e.g., Job, Job Stream, Workstation, Variable table, etc.) the user is currently viewing or searching. As shown in the attached scr...
4 months ago in Workload Automation Planned for future release

conman to authenticate users through WAS/WLP and retrieve LDAP group to user information and authorize using group in assigni

DWC and composer are able to authenticate LDAP users and authorize using LDAP groups and assign security roles accordingly, but conman doesn't authenticate using LDAP hence can't authorize using LDAP groups and assign security roles. Separate ACLs...
over 5 years ago in Workload Automation Planned for future release