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Include Memory Utilization as additional option in Dynamic Pool requirements and enable multiple requirements selection

Dynamic pools does not have option to choose Dynamic Agents based on memory utilization, though memory is also being monitored on the server where the Dynamic agent runs. The workstation definition just has workload balance, CPU utilization, and l...
20 days ago in Workload Automation 0 Submitted

Unable to assign User Groups Name containing spaces when creating API Keys

Group name with spaces in them should be allowed. Confirmed by support as well to not work in their environment.See case below.
13 days ago in Workload Automation 1 Is a defect

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....
4 months ago in Workload Automation 1 Not under consideration

Job statistics page missing from DWC post 10.2.6 upgrade

We have large user community with Read only access to the scheduler. The jobs statistic page is one of the frequently used feature that has been removed with 10.2.6 upgrade. we would like to have that page to be added back into the Workload Design...
about 2 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

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 ...
11 days ago in Workload Automation 0 Submitted

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...
about 1 month ago in Workload Automation 0 Under review

Support for multiple database hosts for Docker Compose deployments

In the Docker Compose setup for IBM Workload Automation (TWS and DWC), the DB_HOSTNAME variable accepts only one host. We have a database with a primary and backup host for failover, and in non-container setups (e.g., CLIConfig.properties), multip...
4 months ago in Workload Automation 1 Not under consideration

Request for Enhancement: Prevent Multiple Master Roles in IWS

In IWS automatic failover configurations, after a failure and subsequent recovery, there is a possibility that multiple MDM/BKM instances with master roles may run simultaneously (split brain). In evaluation environment, this situation caused a ba...
3 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Under review

Process database job stored procedure output variables as IWS variables :- case TS020814036

When defining an IWS job using a database stored procedure, we can set it up in IWS and click lookup parameters to get the variables used by the procedure for both in and out. This works fine and we can specify variable table values as the input v...
about 1 month ago in Workload Automation 0 Under review

Change the CIT Scanner installation path of the Agent on Windows machines

My customer has correctly installed an Agent 9.5.0.7 on a Windows 2016/2019 machine. After receiving error notifications for unavailable resource, they realized that the Scanner installed for the Agent had been deleted. Deepening the problem they ...
9 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Under review