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Workload Automation

Enhance IWS UNIX/Linux Installer to Support Domain IDs Without Strict POSIX Group Dependency

Enable the IWS UNIX/Linux installer to support Domain IDs in LDAP/SSSD environments without failing due to POSIX group resolution issues by reducing strict dependency on OS-level group mapping or providing configurable group handling. Why is this ...
about 2 months ago in Workload Automation Under review

I want to use success output condition for every job possible - currently it works well only if job log is small.

I want to use success output condition for every job possible - currently it works well only if job log is small. There is no information about that in documentation however and it caused a big delay issue in development on my project. We had to r...
2 months ago in Workload Automation Under review

Support SAP S/4HANA Clean Core “Application Jobs” lifecycle in IBM Workload Scheduler (IWS)

Support SAP S/4HANA Clean Core “Application Jobs” lifecycle in IBM Workload Scheduler (IWS) Product: IBM Workload Scheduler – SAP Plug-in / SAP Integration (XBP) Current behavior In SAP S/4HANA (Public and Private Cloud) using the Clean Core–compl...
2 months ago in Workload Automation Under review

Enhancement over existing template.

Enhance current gcpclouddataflow plugin. This is a sample custom classic template for one of the Jobs that we have, could you please attach the template and the default parameters to the IBM ticketThe default parameters that we are looking for all...
3 months ago in Workload Automation Under review

Support RDS DB2 for MDM DB & DWC DB

Planning to deploy IWS to ROSA environment and there we want to use RDS Db2 for MDM and DWC. In the knowledge center, RDS for Oracle, RDS for MSSQL and RDS Postgres is documented, but RDS for Db2 is not listed. Could you support the RDS for Db2 also?
4 months ago in Workload Automation Under review

Correct the vague error messages output from twsinst

While upgrading FTAs from IWS 10.1.5 to IWS 10.2.3 we received the following vague and totally unhelpful output from the backup step. Wed 05 Nov 2025 01:38:39 PM MST backupInstance begin Wed 05 Nov 2025 01:38:39 PM MST /usr/lib/maestro/TWS/LINUX_X...
5 months ago in Workload Automation Under review

pouvoir utiliser JSUNTIL et OPENS dans une meme regle de planification.

une application ETA a besoin de créer un schedule qui verifie ce qui suit: le schedule peut se declencher entre 22h et 03h du matin. Le schedule doit se déclencher seulement sur reception de fichier etzjo0aa.etzaaqq* Si le fichier n'est pas arrivé...
6 months ago in Workload Automation Under review

DWC should fully support IBM DB2 databases at database jobs for stored procedures

At the moment the (documented) functionality at database jobs for stored procedures seems to be limited to four data types (DATE, DECIMAL, INTEGER, VARCHAR) according to the last (and only) available documentation about from version 9.3.0 (Databas...
6 months ago in Workload Automation Under review

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. ...
8 months ago in Workload Automation Under review

AWS S3 event (filewatcher)

S3 job already exists but there is no built-in functionality similar to S3 event/filewatcher, allowing us to monitor objects in buckets (for example creation, changes, etc.) thus we would like you to consider adding this in the format of S3 event ...
9 months ago in Workload Automation Under review