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Workload Automation

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Allow for the use of 12:xx to be used in time fields

Since moving to v10.1, we have noticed that the Workload Designer does not allow us to use the "twelve o'clock hour" in any of the time fields. This has been tested by our team at stream level as well as within a run cycle, on the earliest start t...
about 1 year ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Record a ticket number for DWC plan actions like DB

Can you please add a feature to add an option in DWC to make DWC user to prompt for a ticket a mandatory field while taking any action in plan like rerun, submit, cancel etc. I see multiple users take wrong Plan actions in DWC, its better to recor...
4 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Functionality already exists

IWS : Undo cancel pending operation

Once a cancel pending operation is executed, there is no way to undo this action.
over 1 year ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

DWC - Viewing external dependency graphically from workload designer

It would be useful if the workload designer could show external dependencies between multiple chained jobstreams, to allow a better understanding of the scheduling network. Currently the designer only shows immediate predecessors for jobstreams. E...
over 2 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Sendevent using restapi

We have developped a tools which manage many cases coming from migration from CM/Autosys/.... and this tools use restapi and we would like to use also restapi to simulate the sendevent and replace the sendevent of Autosys. But this sendevent API f...
over 1 year ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

The ability to integrate or move files to the secure cloud content management - Box, inc.

Our company uses Box as one of the primary ways to share files. In an effort to help automate report distribution to some of these customers, it would be nice to be able to use IWS to move files to Box. Since we already connect to the necessary se...
over 1 year ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Enable Database job type to authenticate to the Microsoft SQL Server DB via Domain service accounts

During work to meet an internal business security requirement the expectation to use Domain accounts was defined as a solution to mitigate the use of local service accounts within the Microsoft SQL Server DB security table. However, upon further i...
about 2 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

conman to authenticate users through WAS/WLP and retrieve LDAP group to user information and authorize using group in assigni

DWC and composer are able to authenticate LDAP users and authorize using LDAP groups and assign security roles accordingly, but conman doesn't authenticate using LDAP hence can't authorize using LDAP groups and assign security roles. Separate ACLs...
almost 5 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Planned for future release

Please add the Workstations Status code on DWC Listing workstations. eg MDM (IJ MDEA) or FTA (LTI JW MD) BMDM (LTI JW MD A)

quick and easy view to see if the workstations have not got their correct status codes. Also we know where the EventProcessor is , without clicking multiply times to discover it. (simple GUI)
9 months ago in Workload Automation 1 Not under consideration

add a security option to manage host for x-agent or pool

Hello, Security ask us to separate each application from one to another. That means that an admin A can create job on server x but it cannot create job for a server y under responsability of admin B Currently we used x-agent to manage workstation ...
over 1 year ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration