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Workload Automation

Auto Failover for IWA v10.1 DM and DDM Components

This RFE addresses the need for native auto-failover capabilities for Domain Manager (DM) and Dynamic Domain Manager (DDM) components in TWS v10.1, aiming to improve operational resilience and reduce downtime due to hardware any service crash duri...
2 months ago in Workload Automation Under review

Dedicated Communication Channels and Port Separation for TWS Components

Business Requirement We would like IBM to consider enhancing TWS communication architecture by providing dedicated communication channels and configurable ports for different access methods, such as APIs, OCLI, and Dynamic Workload Console (DWC). ...
2 months ago in Workload Automation Under review

SAP IBP Integration Logs Not Sufficient

We are using SAP IBP integration to trigger the IBP jobs using the job template which is working fine but the IWA logs just shows success or failed message. We would like to see more information in logs to understand the issue by seeing which step...
24 days ago in Workload Automation Under review

Support Regex or Advanced Output Condition Functions to Overcome 256-Character Limitation

Currently, the Output Condition field in Stream supports functions such as contains() and works as expected. However, the field is limited to 256 characters, restricting the number of conditions that can be configured. We request support for regex...
about 2 months ago in Workload Automation Under review

Add support for SSL Communication between the scheduler and DB for Oracle Databases at 10.2.x

Our company's Security requirements state that all communication should now be encrypted. We are starting a project to upgrade our IWS Scheduling system to 10.2.7, but as we are using AWS RDS Oracle database, we have found that we cannot encrypt t...
about 2 months ago in Workload Automation Under review

Fix incorrect display of cancel status on rerun jobs when the original job is cancelled.

Why is it useful? There is a display logic error in Monitor Workload when handling cancelled jobs that have reruns. Currently, if a job has multiple reruns (e.g., one original job + two reruns), and the user cancels the original job, the cancel st...
6 months ago in Workload Automation Under review

Add a user preference to default "Show all rerun instances" in Monitor Workload queries.

Why is it useful? Currently, when users query jobs in Monitor Workload, they must manually select the "Show all rerun instances" option each time. This repetitive action reduces efficiency, especially for users who frequently need to view full rer...
6 months ago in Workload Automation Under review

Flex Template Dataflow jobs - for IdWS

Currently the plugin available is only compatible with standard templates. We need this to be compatible with flex templates as these are the strategic ones my customer requirs
3 months ago in Workload Automation Under review

Add Error Condition Check in Websphere MQ plugin job

Currently When the job runs on MQ agent using Websphere MQ plugin and if there is an error in the job execution, the job is not marking as abend in the TWS agent. So need to add a feature for Error Condition Check — A new field has to be added to ...
3 months ago in Workload Automation Under review

Add an "Show All" option for items per page in Workload Designer list views.

Why is it useful? In the current Workload Designer, the list view limits users to a maximum of 250 items per page, with no option to show all items at once. As shown in the attached screenshot, users must manually click through multiple pages when...
6 months ago in Workload Automation Under review