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Workload Automation

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about 2 months ago in Workload Automation Planned for future release

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

Add clear visual indication of the current object type being viewed or searched in Workload Designer.

Why is it useful? In the current Workload Designer interface, there is no clear indicator showing which object type (e.g., Job, Job Stream, Workstation, Variable table, etc.) the user is currently viewing or searching. As shown in the attached scr...
5 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...
6 months ago in Workload Automation Planned for future release

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

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 ...
about 1 year 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...
about 1 year 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
over 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...
almost 2 years ago in Workload Automation Planned for future release