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Administrator permission should not be required on Windows

Programs such as conman and composer should not require Administrator permission on Microsoft Windows.
about 6 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

On executable job the argument BOX should be numbered and extendable to facilitate visualization/alteration.

On executable job, the argument BOX should be numbered and extendable to facilitate visualization/alteration. We are converting Control-m to IWs , and numbering the argument box will facilitate when you have to do some alteration on a parm. Exampl...
about 6 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Planned for future release

Additional Parameter Option for Filemonitor

We would like an additional parameter added to the filemonitor process to allow the ability to relocate a file that has been preciously found and recorded into the filemonitor database.
over 6 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Standardize date and time display

Allow the user to configure the display of date and time values. Consistently apply formatting across the produce. A good default format would be ISO-8601. 2018-04-22 16:20.
over 6 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Improve performance login on IWS for z/OS

In order to allow to understand in detail the load induced by PIF jobs on the TWS consumption, we wish to be able to have an option to activate a detailed log of the CPU cost of each PIF. In addition, in order to quantify the quality of TSO users'...
over 6 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

DWC 9.4 - - Complex filters (multiple values for the same filters)

System: IWS DWC (Dynamic Workload Console) This request is for DWC 9.4 to have the ability to add multiple values for the same filter in a widget.
about 7 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

DWC - Add ability to have query multiple options or have negative criteria

Add ability to have query multiple options or have negative criteria on monitor workload section of the Dynamic Workload Console.
over 7 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Oracle E-Business plug-in - Selectively include Oracle Request log in IWS job log

The request log from an Oracle E-Business concurrent program submission, managed by IWS, is not currently included in the associated IWS job logs. Having the ability to selectively include the request log into the IWS job log can make it easier fo...
almost 8 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Replacing Scheduling Objects through Workload Applications

If a scheduling object definition included in a Workload Application already exists in the target environment, even though a dialog during the import process provides an option to replace it, it is unable to replace it. This is because the existin...
about 8 years ago in Workload Automation 2 Functionality already exists

Grouping multiple job streams during submit

Hi I've some across the requirement to submit a set of job streams (group) while maintaining the correct external follows dependencies. When doing this manually, this means that it should be done with great caution and in a correct order. What we ...
over 8 years ago in Workload Automation 2 Future consideration