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Update the twsinst script that comes with fixpack 9.4 so that either the temporary directory is not hardcoded as /tmp

Please update the twsinst script that comes with the fixpack install so that the TWA_TEMP variable is either an option or points to the /tmp instead of /tmp. Filling the temp file system has an impact on other applications on the server and not ju...
about 7 years ago in Workload Automation 4 Delivered

DWC : isLate flag for job streams

isLate flag exists for querying late jobs in the plan but does not exist for job streams.
about 1 year ago in Workload Automation 1 Delivered

Integrate dynamic agents authentication with Kerberos

Enhance the dynamic agents authentication to integrate with the Kerberos protocol. The ticket given back by Kerberos should be stored and used later by TWS jobs to authenticate to external systems.
over 6 years ago in Workload Automation 2 Delivered

We would like Workload Automation to keep track of last time a user logged in.

We would like to audit user access and be able to ask users that have not logged into Workload Automation after some period of time if they still need access.
over 2 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Delivered

Display USRLEV setting in IWS via an operator command

With the introduction of Continuous Delivery, the USRLEV parameter can potentially be changed with new maintenance release roll-outs. To ensure that we are able to verify the USRLEV on each sysplex, we would like to have the option of displaying t...
over 6 years ago in Workload Automation 2 Delivered

Containerised distributed Dynamic Agent support for Remote Gateways

Installations of IWS/d 9.X & 10.1 in a virtualised or physcal infrastructure currently supports remote GW for Dynamic Agents (see link below). Containerised Dynamic agents do not support this configuration as the GW is hard coded to localhost....
almost 2 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Delivered

maxdur "event" should write an event to BmEvents.conf log file

While we like the new 9.3 feature of MAXDUR, we want to be able to alert when it hits. With only options of kill or continue, it forces an abend, but that will mislead folks to think the job abended versus got killed. We would like to see a new ev...
about 7 years ago in Workload Automation 2 Delivered

Oracle Job definition import with all the associated parameters

Oracle Job definition import with all the associated parameters
over 3 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Delivered

To be able to disable ALL task share within pre-defined report

Within pre-defined reports we need the ability to disable ALL share task. If not able to have this ability customers can share many tasks created with all causing many pages of reports to appear even if they don't belong to you. Currently there is...
about 4 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Delivered

general Filter multi engines DWC

general Filter multi engines DWC (https://iws.blueops.net/console/)
about 4 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Delivered