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Workload Automation

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Date and time format in the TWDC

Under the TWDC we would like to be able to change the date and time format so as to have the following format:YYYY/MM/DD HHMMSS Timezone with a time format of 24 Hours
almost 8 years ago in Workload Automation 2 Delivered

9.2 console, Administration, "Workload Environment Design", "Alter User Password in Plan" has various interface problems

This request involves the interface for "Alter User Password in Plan" in the 9.2 IWS console under the Administration section, "Workload Environment Design" subsection. The interface has various problems which make it difficult and in some cases d...
almost 8 years ago in Workload Automation 2 Delivered

Workload Scheduler Console 9.3 - Persistent Sort

It would be nice if the sort function under 'Monitor Workload' was persistent between sessions. Or there was some way to bake the sort order into the Query line, so it could be saved for later.
over 8 years ago in Workload Automation 2 Delivered

Event rule that monitors number of executing jobs. The rule should monitor a specified ratio or specified number of executing

Event rule that monitors number of executing jobs. The rule should monitor a specified ratio or specified number of executing jobs. If executing jobs value or ratio meets or exceeds current cpu job limit an action will be performed. Add action to ...
over 9 years ago in Workload Automation 3 Delivered

Dynamic Agents should behave same way as FTA in regads to non-interactive session

On 9.1 FP1 and PMR 78443,010,678 changes was made to the way jobs were started on the FTA. We then created PMR 16192,010,678 since we found that the Dynamic agent behaved in a different manner and got the following response:let me clarify some poi...
over 9 years ago in Workload Automation 7 Delivered

Conman equivalent for dynamic agents

Currently, dynamic agents have no capability to track the workload on the system where the dynamic agent is installed (only the TDWC can be used for this task). An equivalent of conman would be required to track workload on the dynamic agent.
about 10 years ago in Workload Automation 3 Delivered

Enhancement ticket for the product future Installations

We request IBM to open an Enhancement ticket for the issue that we are struggling for MDM, BackUp MDM, FTA, Patch, etc. installations. [1] 'root' / 'sudo-root' access requirement: We aren't allowed to be 'root' or 'sudo-root' on a system and execu...
almost 11 years ago in Workload Automation 4 Delivered

Need to Implement Strong encryption/encoding mechanism

The application uses weak base 64 encoding for sensitive parameters. Base 64 encoding can be easily decoded and the sensitive details can be seen in clear text. It is recommended to implement strong encryption/encoding mechanism by the security team.
over 2 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Delivered

Add back missing info from Workload Designer

In IWS 9.3, Workload Designer, when looking for an object (a Job for example), it would give basic information in the search results - Job name, Workstation, Job type, last updated (or created) and who last updated it. In 9.5 the last updated and ...
almost 3 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Delivered

Retain init.cfg custom user configuration when upgrading Dynamic Agent

If people are not aware that the init.cfg is overwritten when the IWS Agent is upgraded as I was not aware, then after the upgrade event rules could stop working, e.g. event rules which monitor network shares. I feel as this would benefit everyone...
about 3 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Delivered