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Workload Automation

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Estimated runtime on jobs that run with an alias

The estimasted run time is not calculated for jobs that run with an alias, it is calculated using the original job name in the job_statistics_v database view. We have a number of standard jobs accross different applications that we run with an ali...
almost 7 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Customize behavior of EVERY for Jobstreams

We would like to have the option (customer configurable via optman setting or other configuration file) to allow EVERY on schedule to work like EVERY on job in that you would only see the next instance of the schedule in the plan (as well as the p...
over 3 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

IAM authentication support for IWS database Jobs in AWS

We would like to run database jobs against AWS aurora database using IAM authentication for the job
over 3 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

modifying the content of job into the planning

HiIn IWS z/OS we can change the content of job into the planning before it runs, and also after it runs when we we want to rerun a job. or when a customer ask us to do a modification.
almost 7 years ago in Workload Automation 2 Future consideration

DWC all deps option

On TWS mainframe panels, there is an ALL DEPS option for current plan batch jobs. Users asking for this option in gui interface DWC instead of using the impact flowchart view.
over 3 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Customer should be abble to choose severity and return code for some message like EQQ0590W

We request to permit to the product to put OR RC=4 OR RC=8 for some messages and then to handle correctly the corresponding behaviour, depending from Customer needs
about 7 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

job stream within job stream functionality to be enhanced

Job stream within job stream is not waiting for job stream to complete and it is getting submitted into plan then continuing to submit next job or job stream.Requirement is to make sure until job or job stream is not complete within original job s...
over 3 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Oracle E-Business plug-in - Optionally allow Warning status to be accepted as success

Customers use the Oracle E-business plug-in to manage individual Concurrent Manager requests as IWS jobs. Those request may complete in Oracle Concurrent Manager with a Warning status. The IWS Oracle E-Business plug-in does not currently provide a...
over 7 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Oracle E-Business plug-in - Optionally consider status of child requests

Customers use the Oracle E-business plug-in to manage individual Concurrent Manager requests as IWS jobs. Those request may submit one or more child requests to Oracle Concurrent Manager. The IWS Oracle E-Business plug-in does not currently provid...
over 7 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Oracle E-Business plug-in - Wait for child requests

Customers use the Oracle E-business plug-in to manage individual Concurrent Manager requests as IWS jobs. Those request may submit one or more child requests to Oracle Concurrent Manager. The IWS Oracle E-Business plug-in does not currently provid...
over 7 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration