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Workload Automation

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Add Resources in Join Dependencies - IWA 10.1

Hello We are using IWA 10.1 and want to create JST using more than 40 resources. The composer add command returns the message AWSJOM138E The dependencies defined for job or job stream "******GVC010VERA" are incorrect because they would give a tota...
16 days ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

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...
3 months ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

(Public) Support for gMSA accounts in IWS. Allow IWS to use gMSA accounts to execute jobs

(Public) gMSA for service accounts offer additional security and will not require manual updating of passwords. IWS currently requires standard user accounts (the Microsoft definition) to execute jobs, and not gMSA or sSMA accounts.
about 2 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Implementation of Periodic Resynchronization Feature from Symphony Files to IWS DB or Addition of Synchronization Failure Detection Capability

In my team, an operational error occurred during job status checks in DWC. The root cause was the inability to confirm the latest job execution results in DWC for several hours. (This occurred due to the synchronization failure from Symphony fi...
3 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

add a security option to manage host for x-agent or pool

Hello, Security ask us to separate each application from one to another. That means that an admin A can create job on server x but it cannot create job for a server y under responsability of admin B Currently we used x-agent to manage workstation ...
about 1 month ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Search for objects that use another object

In our old workload automation software, Automic, the GUI provided a function called "Search for Use." This would allow you to select an object, for example a Run Cycle Group, and list all of the other objects (Job Stream) that reference that Run ...
about 1 month ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Webservice Job: Pooling the execution status in the same webservice jobs

Hi team, We are using webservice jobs run various seeded jobs using the webservice plugins. In second step we are defining an executable job to fetch the report id/request id from the XM response. In last step we are doing the conditional checks i...
23 days ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

A new field for occurences with the original ADID

Workload (dynamic and static) increases rapidly and the end of the CP planning period got hit regularly. To avoid this issue some woradounds are needed and already supported by PIF. PIF (e.g. WAPL) can create an alias occurence ids. However, the o...
about 1 year ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Extending the accuracy of the input arrival date time

Workload (dynamic and static) increases rapidly and the end of the CP planning period got hit regularly. To avaid complicated workarounds, the input arrival date time needs a better accuracy - at least to seconds. By increasiny the accuracy of the...
about 1 year ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

EQQSERVER avoid 878 abend by limiting connections

The EQQSERVER uses memory under 16 MB. If many jobs use the EQQSERVER, we get an S878. To avoid downtime, the number of concurrent connections must be limited. The server task should reject or queue new incoming connections (e.g. a FIFO queue). To...
about 1 year ago in Workload Automation 4 Future consideration