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Workload Automation

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...
about 2 months ago in Workload Automation Planned for future release

DYNAMIC VARIABLE EXPORTING IN OPENS CONDITION

- Need daily dynamic timestamp in OPENS file dependency path (e.g., /path/YYYY-MM-DD_file.done) - .jobmanrc variables (YESTERDAY=`date -d yesterday +%Y-%m-%d`) work in SCRIPTNAME execution - Variables do NOT expand in OPENS clause - TWS shows lite...
3 months ago in Workload Automation Planned for future release

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...
4 months ago in Workload Automation Planned for future release

Allow run cycles to schedule by weekday offsets

Currently monthly run cycles can be scheduled for "last day", "2nd to last day", etc. as well as "first day", "second day" and so forth. We have a requirement to run on the last 3 weekdays and the first 4 weekdays of a month. We're currently manag...
8 months ago in Workload Automation Planned for future release

Return missing details of graphical view in workload designer

In version 9.4 of the Workload Scheduler we used to be able to see the earliest start time and conditional dependency criteria on the graphical view. This is missing in version 10.2.2 (we recently upgraded) and we miss it. As long as I'm asking, i...
11 months ago in Workload Automation Planned for future release

The Job run history query on DWC monitor workload/jobs panel is not sorted DWC.

The users find it very difficult to search and compare historical runs of a certain job. The actual start date and time on the list are not in order. Can the query have an Order by Actual Start ASC statement to have the result in ascending order
about 1 year ago in Workload Automation Planned for future release

"~/appservertools/startAppServer.sh -directclean" option in the startup script iwa_init_<Installed User>

Hi Team, I was going through the script iwa_init_<Installed User> to set up the automatic start and stop for the OS reboots (specifically post OS patching). Earlier we faced issue with DB connection post OS patching. So we had to start the L...
over 1 year ago in Workload Automation Planned for future release

How to set a password for the KeyStores and TrustStores when deploying IWA with Kubernetes/Helm Charts.

The password used to create the KeyStore and TrustStore is randomly generated. Even though it can be retrieved from the env variable SSL_PASSWORD or decoding the stash (sth) file, a facility must be provided to set it to a desired password. The fo...
over 1 year ago in Workload Automation Planned for future release

Use optman parameter for progressive switchplan instead of modify script

Hello, Currently, there is two options to manage stop agent progression in switchplan : conman stop @!/@/@ \; wait \; noaskconman stop @!/@/@ ; progressive This two lines are in switchplan script in IWS install directory, one is commented the othe...
almost 2 years 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