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Workload Automation

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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.
over 1 year ago in Workload Automation 4 Functionality already exists

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...
over 1 year ago in Workload Automation 1 Functionality already exists

DWC - Manage Engine function was not enabled for Developer and Operator role to create Engine

DWC server - ttfai740OS Version - AIX 7.2.0.0DWC version - 9.5 FP02 Manage Role Section --> Only Administrator role have access to "Manage Engine" function, there are many application teams in our environment, we had plan to assign Developer an...
over 3 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Functionality already exists

Replacing Scheduling Objects through Workload Applications

If a scheduling object definition included in a Workload Application already exists in the target environment, even though a dialog during the import process provides an option to replace it, it is unable to replace it. This is because the existin...
over 8 years ago in Workload Automation 2 Functionality already exists

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...
about 1 year ago in Workload Automation 2 Functionality already exists

Multi factor Authentication

"Background:Multi-factor authentication (MFA) enhances the security of an application by providing an added layer(s) of authentication mechanism. The authentication mechanism can be any of the following types: what the user knows (security questio...
30 days ago in Workload Automation 1 Functionality already exists

a new connection method be created for running processes on a Windows extended agent with Openssh (without the cygwin emulator)

a new connection method be created for running processes on a Windows extended agent with Openssh (without the cygwin emulator)
2 months ago in Workload Automation 1 Functionality already exists

Monitor and or lock down actions on variable tables

A user set one of their variable tables as the default table and we would like to be able to be alerted on this action at the minimum or at a maximum lock down this action so that only certain users can perform this action.
4 months ago in Workload Automation 1 Functionality already exists

DWC Sharing boards with groups

Users can create custom boards which are useful to display multiple queries at once, but currently these boards can be shared only among DWC roles, which are very large scopes. It would be usefull if one can share his custom board among users belo...
7 months ago in Workload Automation 2 Functionality already exists

Add User and Domain to Explore Area of Workload Designer.

Add User and Domain objects to the Explore Area in the Workload Designer. When opening the TWSd DWC Workload Design in v10.1, the Explore area displays boxes for objects listing how many there are of each object. You can easily click on any one of...
over 1 year ago in Workload Automation 1 Functionality already exists