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Workload Automation

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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.
about 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...
about 6 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

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...
about 3 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Planned for future release

Windows user rights absolutely needed for IWS to working fine

Product: IWS 9.3.0.3OS: Windows 2016 We are installing IWS on Windows OS but, for internal security policies, some user rights are not allowed to be assigned to any user (as they are high privileged).IWS requires some rights, as per documentation....
over 6 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...
about 3 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Apply filer to Workload Dashboard before opening

The Workload Dashboard in DWC 9.3 (GA-FP3)/9.4 (GA-FP2) can take an undesirably long time to return results after opening when working on larger TWS environments with multiple engine definitions. The ability to filter engines from the dashboard re...
over 6 years ago in Workload Automation 1 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
about 3 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

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)
over 6 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Planned for future release

IWS9.x event rule's human-readable date/time variables display as yyyy-mm-ddThh:mm:ssZ/tz; expecting month dd, yyyy hh:mm:ss

In TWS 8.6, when using any event rule human-readable variables that display date/time, the date/time is presented in this format: month dd, yyyy hh:mm:ss AM/PM timezone Thus TWS 8.6 the presentation looks like:April 23, 2018 6:37:00 AM CDT In IWS ...
over 6 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

In IWS Scheduling Factory submitJobStream add Variable Table parameter.

submitJobSream only supports jsname, start time and alias. For my needs passing a Variable table is required.
over 3 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Functionality already exists