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Alert if recurring job not runs as per schedule

If a recurring job scheduled to run 15 mins in 2 hours, There should be a monitor to check if that job runs 8 times in 2 hours. Or like hourly monitor if there is no 4 triggers. This will help globally to all customers to check if critical recurri...
about 3 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

IWA- Enhancement in service catalogs, Drop downlist, parameters

Enhancement in Service catalogs.1. By using drop down list we can restrict user to submit only the predefined parameters while adding job stream. 2. Date and Time formatting, dd/mm/yy mmm/yy 3. Greyed Instruction on variable format which will be h...
about 3 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Allow RACF surrogate authority to be used in the configureDb.sh script to define the DB2 database for a DWC running on z/OS

As discussed in case TS012239863, when defining a DB2 for z/OS database it is not necessary to run the SQL (whether it is run as batch job, as a BPXBATCH invocation of a script, or directly as a script under OMVS) under the userid that has SYSADM ...
over 1 year ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

use of generic caracters in SDOM ACL and ROLES definitions

To help selecting an defining objects. For now just @ is allowed,we need the use of a single caractere selection possibility, like for jobs or schedules selection
over 1 year ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

just retain the name of original schedule in the schedule userjobs

If the schedule is not in carryfroward, its diffciult to retrieve original schedule in the userjobs schedule
over 1 year ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Jnext Enhancement - Bring objects from DB to Plan without Jnext

1) We want to isolate any faulty FTAs from the current plan without the need of scratching it or refreshing it. If we find some FTAs are having issues after the generation of production plan which causes impact to the master, we should have some c...
almost 5 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

HashiCorp integration with IWS for secure connection between DB and IWS master

There should be a way to intigrate HashiCorp with IWS .We saw security team in organation asking to use Hashicorp to secure the connection/authentication between IWS master and oracle database as we are using XML file to pass password/Username (ev...
over 1 year ago in Workload Automation 2 Future consideration

In managing variants sap from IWS extend the length of the fields from 45 to 132 characters to allow complex formulas that re

In managing variants sap from IWS extend the length of the fields from 45 to 132 characters to allow complex formulas that require a length of over 45 cha.
almost 7 years ago in Workload Automation 3 Future consideration

Report for All Types of Failed Jobs

We would like an option in the IWS reporting tool to display failed jobs (ex: jobs that fail because there are no resources available.) If a job creates any kind of error, (failed/abended/etc.), we want to be able to see it in a report to keep tra...
over 3 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Free day rule E on IWS Distributed

Difference between IWS z/OS and IWS distributed on the freeday rule.In IWS z/OS you have a freeday rule "E" which exclude the freedays. This feature doesn't exist on IWS D
almost 7 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration