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Workload Automation

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Enable user impersonation in docker Zcentric agents for running the jobs under different application usernames.

For now, IWS have limitation on executing the jobs only under wauser in docker zCentric agents and per IBM documentation user impersonation is not feasible on docker agents. In a traditional TWS environment, user impersonation is possible. We are ...
over 2 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Not under consideration

Copy job logs

On a job creation (e.g. executable type), under environment tab we have , Standard input, Standard output, Standard error. This capabilities allows to provide a path to send the joblog. Allthough for job types like "SAP JOB ON DYNAMIC WORKSTATIONS...
over 3 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

IWS/IWA Filewatch JOBStream improvment

The client is using the Filewatch capabilities to manage input files coming from external partners/clients. During a normal day they need to manage the following situations: - No file received - a single file received - Multiple file received They...
almost 6 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Planned for future release

Kill Zombie Jobs: Add functionality to be able to recover from a corrupted Jobtable on an FTA

When an FTA crashes and gets a corrupted Jobtable and the Jobtable must be removed, jobs that were in EXEC status before the crash remain in EXEC state and take run slots against the server limit, and job stream limit if applicable, even after the...
about 7 years ago in Workload Automation 2 Not under consideration

Per job E2E accounting from mainframe should be possible without DB2

To support and offer better solutions to our customers we would like to use the "per job accounting" from the mainframe without having the DB2 history database installed. Some of our mainframe customers have several servers installed and could be ...
almost 6 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Planned for future release

RESTFUL plugin to support OAuth2.0 with Client Credentials & expiring token

As discussed with L3 part of CASE: TS013544578.The 10.2 restful API provided with Oauth 2.0 only works for non-expiring refresh token. But part of our security requirement the refresh token need to be expiring (max 1 hour) using the client credent...
about 1 year ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Would like to see an intermediate state between enabled and draft for IWA schedules

Most of our application teams have their schedules set up in the non-prod environments to mimic production, including the run cycles. This simplifies the production promotions as we can copy the objects and change the workstations they run on for ...
over 2 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Variable that has the mm/dd/yyyy format and at time = hh:mm

zWorkload Scheduler provides the &ODY1 variable to populate a date when creating email alerts. We would like to see variables that allow for a formatted date and time, to be included in the email alert. For example: We would like to see a vari...
over 2 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Workload Scheduler support for linux parameter "vsyscall=none isses"

see ticket IBM support request TS005150482:IBM Workload Scheduler 9.5 Fixpack 3 - with linux parameter "vsyscall=none isses" every TWS command freezes------------------------------------------environment:TWS Client Version 5 Fickpack 03operatingSy...
over 3 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Fix extranneous text created in Job Stream Descriptions.

Before 9.4 Jobdescriptions if blank did not show up in composer dump files. Now all the blank descriptions when the JobStream is editted change to "Automatically added by composer" This has the following negative consequences: 1. Dump files are mu...
over 3 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration