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    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...
    7 days 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...
    13 days ago in Workload Automation 0 Under review

    Support SAP S/4HANA Clean Core “Application Jobs” lifecycle in IBM Workload Scheduler (IWS)

    Support SAP S/4HANA Clean Core “Application Jobs” lifecycle in IBM Workload Scheduler (IWS) Product: IBM Workload Scheduler – SAP Plug-in / SAP Integration (XBP) Current behavior In SAP S/4HANA (Public and Private Cloud) using the Clean Core–compl...
    9 days ago in Workload Automation 0 Under review

    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...
    2 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Under review

    Time Out when large access error encountered

    As discussed in TS021210446.... We had an issue when a user put in the command -m sched @#AWSBIA291I Total objects: 88813AWSBIA288I Total objects updated: 0 This was done in error, but TWS hung for over 20 mins not submitting jobs on agents/pools....
    12 days 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 ...
    8 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Under review

    DWC should fully support IBM DB2 databases at database jobs for stored procedures

    At the moment the (documented) functionality at database jobs for stored procedures seems to be limited to four data types (DATE, DECIMAL, INTEGER, VARCHAR) according to the last (and only) available documentation about from version 9.3.0 (Databas...
    4 months ago in Workload Automation 1 Under review

    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. ...
    6 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Under review

    Support RDS DB2 for MDM DB & DWC DB

    Planning to deploy IWS to ROSA environment and there we want to use RDS Db2 for MDM and DWC. In the knowledge center, RDS for Oracle, RDS for MSSQL and RDS Postgres is documented, but RDS for Db2 is not listed. Could you support the RDS for Db2 also?
    2 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Under review

    Correct the vague error messages output from twsinst

    While upgrading FTAs from IWS 10.1.5 to IWS 10.2.3 we received the following vague and totally unhelpful output from the backup step. Wed 05 Nov 2025 01:38:39 PM MST backupInstance begin Wed 05 Nov 2025 01:38:39 PM MST /usr/lib/maestro/TWS/LINUX_X...
    3 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Under review

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