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Workload Automation

On Pre-defined Job and Adhoc Job submission, change automated creation of JOBS default job stream on Plan to be by folder to enable better folder separation

Today, there's a little secret when submitting a Pre-defined Job onto the plan when you don't have an existing job stream on the plan to put it in: just put into the "Into Job Stream" field in DWC the following magic text: "/JOBS". On submission, ...
1 day ago in Workload Automation Submitted

Enhance Merge Logs with Folder Information

Folder information is not currently included in the merge log, which makes job analysis difficult—especially when logs are parsed and shipped to centralised logging platforms like Elastic. Including folder details in the merge log would significan...
12 days ago in Workload Automation Submitted

User Access Report

We need the ability to identify the users who login to IWS and when their last login was. This would be for both DWC access and the composer CLI. The existing audit reports that show when objects are modified is not sufficient. We have hundreds of...
7 days ago in Workload Automation Submitted

Event rule for checking status of job / job stream at specific time where deadline or max duration is not defined

We had a use case where we need to create event to check the job status or job stream status at particular time interval , where we do not have any deadline or until or maxdur defined. It would be very useful to have event triggering at specific t...
4 days ago in Workload Automation Submitted

Enable Azure Data Factory (ADF) and cloud-based jobs in IBM Workload Scheduler to support multi-region failover

Currently, IBM Workload Scheduler Azure Data Factory (ADF) job definitions are tightly coupled to a single Azure region. The primary or initial job definition does not support automatic or easy failover to another Azure location in the event of a ...
21 days ago in Workload Automation Submitted

Retry Capability on Network Gateway Issues for Azure Datafactory jobs

This change is intended to address one of the issues we are currently experiencing with ADF jobs. Due to transient cloud-related issues, TWS ADF plugin jobs occasionally fail with errors such as the one shown below. This typically occurs after the...
21 days ago in Workload Automation Submitted

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....
6 months ago in Workload Automation Not under consideration

Enhancement for Secure Transport plugin: option to receive no error if there are no files to pull

Imagine the following scenario: We need to regularly check, every X minutes throughout the day, if a file is available on an external partner's SFTP. When a file is available, we must download it immediately, with a maximum delay of 5 minutes. To ...
2 months ago in Workload Automation Submitted

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...
6 months ago in Workload Automation Not under consideration

AWS GLUE plugin job

In current AWS GLUE plugin job, we do not see AWS IAM role for authentication. instead, it just shows us only Access Key id authentication method. It would be great if this can be enhanced allowing user to select which ever option they need.
18 days ago in Workload Automation Submitted

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