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Workload Automation

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Connect IWS CLI (conman/composer) DIRECTLY to Win/AD using LDAP

Instead of using the useropts_twsxxxx file to authenticate IWS users credentials , can we directly go to our Win/AD system via LDAP to authenticate this way. eg removed the useropts. file
over 2 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

CLI should ensure useropts files are created with permission that prevent access by other users

A user's .TWS directory and useropts file are currently created by composer or conman based on a user's current umask setting. Many users are either not familiar with umask, are unaware of the relationship between umask setting the creation of .TW...
over 1 year ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

SAML2.0 Integration for DWC and CLI

Provide integration with SAML2.0 for DWC and Remote CLI to enable authentication through our organisations Single Sign On
over 2 years ago in Workload Automation 3 Planned for future release

Agent keyword in joblogs are only present on Dynamic agents, should be on all agent types.

We are using ondemand and splunk to collect joblogs for debug and historical reasons.But since joblogs are different regarding the agent keyword in the joblog it makes it difficult to search and compare, since agent keyword is missing in many jobl...
about 8 years ago in Workload Automation 2 Not under consideration

RFE for conman to show jobs that are LATE

RFE for conman to show jobs that are LATE
about 4 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Planned for future release

Request for Integration of Azure Key Vault with IBM Workload Automation

Dear IBM Support Team, I hope this message finds you well. I am writing to submit a Customer Enhanced Request for the integration of Azure Key Vault with IBM Workload Automation. Our organization currently utilizes the Workload Automation product ...
over 1 year ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Increase Maximum Byte Constraint on "Node" (Currently 51 bytes)

Node name currently has a maximum byte size of 51 chars. We have nodes with FQDN's source AWS that require 75 chars. We request that node name be increased to some value at or exceeding 128 bytes to facilitate long node values in the future. Appli...
about 4 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

ProcessID missing in joblogs for windows processes

CASE ID - TS003942595During investigations to identify long running issues of a job, we found that Windows ProcessID is not supplied back to the Job Log, Yet for Linux/Unix processes the ID is provided. This makes tracing the process thats causing...
about 4 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Allowing Centralised Security to be updated without the need to run FINAL plan.

We would like to migrate from traditional Security Stanix to Distributed Security , But we would like the Distribution method to be dynamic and NOT wait for the FINAL plans runs or running the Jnextplan -noremove 0000 command.
over 1 year ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

When an event Action is in Error , Write in DWC what the error is. Webadmin does this . discovered in message.log

quicker in event rule resolution
over 1 year ago in Workload Automation 2 Future consideration