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Workload Automation

Integrating Azure's ManagedIdentityCredential into the "Azure Blob and Data Lake Storage plug-in" authentication flow

Our InfoSec policy restricting the use of Client Secrets and the operational constraints preventing you from modifying your existing Managed Identity configuration. Because the Workload Automation Azure Storage plugin currently only supports stand...
about 22 hours ago in Workload Automation Submitted

Easier view of "Carry Forward" jobs from the previous Plan

Integrating a Carried Forward indicator directly into the Monitor Job Streams and Orchestration Monitor views would fundamentally transform how operators manage day-to-day plan transitions. Currently, identifying job streams that failed to complet...
about 1 month ago in Workload Automation Future consideration

Greater visibility of AT times in the DWC

The integration of AT times as an explicit, visual dependency within the Dynamic Workload Console (DWC) would bridge a critical gap between time-based scheduling and dependency logic. Currently, an At time often acts as a silent gatekeeper; a job ...
about 1 month ago in Workload Automation Future consideration

Add destinationCACertificate support for OpenShift reencrypt routes

Summary:Customer (SAQ) need to deploy Enterprise TLS Certificates signed by CA (Instead the self-signed certificates).The use of Certificates signed by CA is a Security requirement for 'Production' environement.The customer has created a pull requ...
23 days ago in Workload Automation Submitted

Work Station Profile

Support SSO/MSO
7 days ago in Workload Automation Submitted

Improvement Suggestion: API for Bulk Release (Unhold) of Jobs in TWSz

Currently, in TWSz, we use the JobStreamInPlan API to place all jobs of a specific application on hold efficiently. This capability is very useful for bulk control during maintenance windows, incident handling, or deployment activities. However, t...
23 days ago in Workload Automation Submitted

Enhance Merge Logs with Folder Information

Folder information is not currently included in the merge log, which makes job analysis difficult—especially when logs are parsed and shipped to centralised logging platforms like Elastic. Including folder details in the merge log would significan...
about 2 months ago in Workload Automation Submitted

Adding dependencies to individual run cycles

We'd like to be able to add dependencies to individual run cycles. We currently can't do this. We have a jobstream with multiple runcycles, but want one of those runcycle to follow another jobstream, not them all. We have to do it on the command l...
about 1 month ago in Workload Automation Submitted

File watcher job that can monitor cloud storage like Azure blobs and S3 buckets

We have manu business teams migrating from traditional file stores using DFS / SMB to Azure blobs and AWS S3 buckets. They would still like the ability to run jobs based on file creation or other events in these new storage types.
about 1 month ago in Workload Automation Submitted

Functionality to export,edit,import IWS Database Objects in Excel (or some other form of spreadsheets)

This is an idea to add a functionality to export/import IWS Database Objects to/from IWS DB. Many IWS customers are requesting a functionality to export IWS Database Objects to a spreadsheet, edit them, then bulk import the objects back to IWS DB....
7 months ago in Workload Automation Not under consideration