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Workload Automation

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Extracting user list from DWC

Why is it useful? 1. It is useful for the purpose of timely review conducted by every client to have a clear picture of what users have access to application and what is the type of access. 2. It simplifies the review for auditors as well for inte...
over 2 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

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 ...
about 8 years ago in Workload Automation 2 Future consideration

Hide SQL commands or SQL returned when running a Database job type in 9.4 Web Console

When setting up and running a database job type in 9.4 Web Console, in the job log information it displays the SQL that was returned from running the database job. It would be helpful to be able to choose if you would like this information to be h...
over 5 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

passing File name with job as paramater to the job script , Job should take name of the file which is getting satisfy using file base dependency

we have event base scheduling to pass file name, where name of the fill will be the file which is getting satisfy with file dependency but here problme is FTA is dependent on Master for event part. Instead of this if we can pass file name in norma...
almost 3 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Add Extended job name to the EQQE036I message

Currently the EQQ message does not contain the extended job name for distributed jobs in an E2E environment
almost 3 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

IWA - set OS priority for a job

Provide a new job definition keyword to specify an OS level priority. When the job is started, IWA will "nice" the process to the specified level (low, med, high maybe). This would be different than the current IWA priority, which only affects the...
over 5 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Filters in IWS output collector

Our IWS environment include both PROD and TEST jobs in the same controller but now a new "requirement" has arised to the the output collector that collect the distributed joblogs and transferred them to the mainframe. Today, when installing the IW...
almost 6 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Allow variable tables to be specified in a hierarchy

The limit of one, and only one, variable table to be specified limits reusability. It leads to redundancy and inhibits efforts to apply DRY (Don't Repeat Yourself) principles. This raises both development and maintenance cost.
almost 6 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Make the 4 minutes fixed deadline of ONOVERLAP DONOTSTART flexible or provide a new option

We need to be able to add a waiting time to the ONOVERLAP DONOTSTART setting in a stream, this is now hard coded to 4 minutes.OrProvide us with a new option, something like ONOVERLAP CANCEL. Which would cancel itself automatically when the next in...
almost 6 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

SAP jobs been deleted doesn't have any control from scheduling tool

SAP Jobs being constantly deleted or manually released by the end-user, causing the job in TWS side to loose its reference with the SAP job and failing, impacting the business. We'd like to have a solution developed and embedded in TWS to either s...
almost 6 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration