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TWS Operator Comments Section for each job

While performing operations on jobs like say putting a job on hold, a section to capture operator comments is required. This helps when there are multiple shifts and handover of operations to next shift. By capturing the comments it helps operatio...
about 6 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

In DWC, Provide Excel kind of filter option in monitor workload field results, add exclusion option in monitor workload --> Object type job --> Edit option , Enable dragging option in the monitor workload results to take action on bulk job instances

We need below features in DWC future release, Provide Excel kind of filter option in monitor workload field results. For example, in excel sheet using filter option, we can select or unselect the entries based on our requirement. Actually, we are ...
about 2 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Snow ticket creation after reading data from Excel which stores various details wrt to job

We have a requirement to automate the ticket creation using SNOW. All the IWA job details and the agreed priority (when there is a job failure) is stored in a separate Smartsheet. IWA will read data from Smartsheet to determine the priority and ot...
about 2 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Mandatory predecessors for TWSd.

In TWS 9.1 is announced a new type of predecessors who allow waits for at predecessor, which is not in the plan at Make-plan time. But this new type is only deliveret to TWSz in TWS version 9.1. Please also deliver the mandatory predecessor type f...
about 10 years ago in Workload Automation 3 Not under consideration

Rerunning the single job does not create a new log but overlays the old log

Good evening, we have an idea about the functioning of job rerun in the case of individual jobs not belonging to a Jobstream. When we rerun a single job within its flow it correctly creates a duplicate entry of the same job on the console with a n...
about 1 year ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Enhancements to Self-Service Catalog

There were some Features in the 9.4 Self-Service Catalog that our Business Partners depended on as critical functions. We would like some form of these functions / requirements returned to the 10.1+ Self-Service Catalog - The ability to see the ex...
about 1 year ago in Workload Automation 3 Not under consideration

Integration of TDWC and SPLUNK Real User Management

SPLUNK Real User Management provides insight into the user experience via a HTML based plugin for applications. It is used to simulate the user experience and collect data to provide a baseline for alerting/monitoring
about 1 year ago in Workload Automation 3 Not under consideration

Job stream copy in Dynamic Workload Console Workload Designer

This copy of the Jobstream will allow the user to revert back any changes made by deleting or pending the edited Application.
about 1 year ago in Workload Automation 5 Not under consideration

On linux JOB the JobManager should expand environment variable (if used) in stdout and stderr definition

On a JOB kind "executable" if we use environnement variable in stdout and stderr definition : they are not expanded as they should. May bhis include this another enhancemnt : possibility to add a ".profile" in configuration list of the JOB (becaus...
about 1 year ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

IWS subtasks statistics

We have seen several errors in stats of IWS, the length of counters is incorrect and for that the most significant digit is lost (when next number to 99999 is 0).We need at least 7 digits in partial counters an 8 digits in total ones, according wi...
over 6 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration