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Workload Automation

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Enhance WAT Features for migration

We observed few limitations while migrating IWA objects using WAT. Please consider below points to be enhanced in the Workload Application Template Feature in the future release. External job and job stream dependencies are not getting reflected w...
over 2 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Planned for future release

MAXSUBJOBS

Hi, I wanted to use this option/parm MAXSUBJOBS of the OPCOPTS but was worried that once I issued the operator cmd /F procname,maxsub=nnnn I would not be able to see if it was updated and show the new value. What I would like to see once I issue t...
almost 5 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Planned for future release

Variable Passing Database Jobs need to print the output value of the processed statement in logs of its subsequent E-Business jobs

In our environment, we are having database jobs defined. For database jobs which is executing SQL statement with SELECT command , we could see the output of that query has been printed in that job log. They are variable passing jobs where the outp...
over 2 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Planned for future release

IWS/IWA Export Import definition improvment

The client is re-using some utilities/services JOBS to manage repetitive operations. They defined it once and leveraging on variable usage they reuse this common JOBS within multiple applications with the same JOB or occurence name. This is creati...
over 5 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Planned for future release

ADD a parameter IA TIME in panel EQQAMRZP "Z/OS remote job info"

Can you add an Input arrival time (IA Time) parameter on the panel EQQAMRZP"z / os remote job info" ?This parameter will allow to indicate with precision on which occurrence of TWS Z / OS remote we want to associate the local shadow operation.
over 5 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Planned for future release

RFE TWS for asynchronous Restful plugin

It is necessary to make restful calls asynchronous to avoid active connections for a long time (with polling or webhook or other)
about 6 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Planned for future release

composer jobstream output no longer readable starting from 9.4

Jobstream output from composer uses 2 line returns instead of 1 between jobstreams and jobs, This has 2 negative impacts: 1. It is much less readable. To make output readable just change font or screensize or use DWC graphical views. 2. It takes u...
about 3 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Planned for future release

Distinguish between ignored/unused/future-enhancement and optional fields in REST API

Improve REST API documentation so fields that are actually ignored, currently unused, or reserved for future enhancements are marked as such, and not as "optional". Optional fields imply that when users choose the option to use them, they have an ...
about 3 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Planned for future release

A column for Operator Instructions is needed in DWC

Need an immutable field (as in panel ID EQQSOPSP option 7 OPERATOR INSTR - Operator instructions) for Operator Instructions.
over 6 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Planned for future release

New variable tws.job.runcount

The variable tws.job.runcount should contain the number of reruns of a job. A job runs the first time after it's ordered the variable contains a 1. After a rerun (automatic or manually) it contains a 2. Next rerun a 3 and so on.
over 3 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Planned for future release