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How to find pool/d-pool name for a dynamic agent, based on a command or SQL query

In order to find out a pool for a given dynamic agent, the current method is to take a dump of all CPU definitions and then search for the existing pool associated with the agent, however in huge environments where adding agents to pool is a frequ...
29 days ago in Workload Automation 0 Submitted

Install new Job types / Plug-ins into your distributed IWS Domain directly from the DWC

Leverage the power of the Automation Hub directly from your IWS Dynamic Workload Console to build more robust, agile, and future-ready automation solutions. With over 150 plug-ins the Automation Hub is rapidly expanding and allowing customers to i...
5 months ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

add support to run DA agents using Group Managed Service Accounts in Windows

At the moment it's possible to specify AD account, by specifying -uname and -domain parameters during twsinst execution. We would like to request the ability to use Group Managed Service Account as well - twsinst would need to allow us to not prov...
5 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

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

Ability to mass submit Job Streams from an archived plan or forecast

From the Dynamic Workload Console, we would like the ability to select multiple Job Streams from an archived plan or forecast and resubmit them into the current plan, while maintaining dependencies, as if they were scheduled into the current plan....
about 2 months ago in Workload Automation 1 Not under consideration

Plugin to monitor the creation/modification of files in BLOB (azure)

There is a filewatcher program that monitors files on on-premises servers, allowing jobs to consume these files. But there is nothing similar to monitor files in the Azure cloud - BLOB
about 1 year ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

pouvoir utiliser JSUNTIL et OPENS dans une meme regle de planification.

une application ETA a besoin de créer un schedule qui verifie ce qui suit: le schedule peut se declencher entre 22h et 03h du matin. Le schedule doit se déclencher seulement sur reception de fichier etzjo0aa.etzaaqq* Si le fichier n'est pas arrivé...
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...
about 1 month ago in Workload Automation 0 Under review

Add functionality to event rule to include a variable for the dynamic url for the job log

We would like to add the dynamic url to the job log for any job. We envision this might be best facilitated as one of the selectable variables for event rules. That way we could include in the body of the sendmail action, or to the payload sent to...
5 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

DWC to support proper high-availability

We have a load balancer in front of multiple DWC instances. The problem is that session affinity is required because of how the DWC stores user sessions. So, when one of the instances needs to be restarted, all logged in users to that instance are...
2 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration