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Provide and "Enhanced" Executable Job Type to facilitate migrations from competitive solutions (Control-M and AutoSys)

Matches Autosys functionality, eliminates manual effort via scripts, good for scalability, reducing areas for errors Allows user to specify profile prior to job running and before use of Standard/Out invoke Allow for the use of various credential...
about 2 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Planned for future release

Documented API twsd/plan/current/job/" + jobIdentifier + "/jobsuccessors/sublist/action/rerun

We use the twsd/plan/current/job/" + jobIdentifier + "/jobsuccessors/action/rerun which is well documented but we need alos to use the twsd/plan/current/job/" + jobIdentifier + "/jobsuccessors/sublist/action/rerun API which not documented. This AP...
about 2 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Planned for future release

Update batch reports CLI to not require full access to the database

We began piloting the command line reporting function for TWS and, through the support ticket noted, found out that in order for CLI reports to work with an Oracle database, the CLI must be granted access to the TWS object owner account. This is i...
over 2 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Planned for future release

Connect IWS to CyberArk to allow CLI to function.

Connect IWS to CyberArk, to allow checking of password change from vault, to alleviate static passwords, used within the conman and composer CLI
over 2 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Planned for future release

SSL encryption for psagent workstations

In the near future, Peoplesoft will discontinue support for LLE tuxedo connections, and we'll need to migrate to SSL tuxedo connections (see attached) Presently, in workload scheduler, an extended psagent workstation cannot talk to a peoplesoft t...
over 2 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Planned for future release

WA-100029 causing undesired data in the audit trail - make it configurable/tunable

Support ticket TS008699033. We installed 9.5 FP5 and noticed that our audit trail in the database began to expand rapidly. Ultimately it was noted that WA-100029 had added an unconditional audit of all GET operations, but the release notes did not...
over 2 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Planned for future release

Sequence number for event submited jobs

I have lately set up some event triggered jobs. It is a predefined job that will be submitted each time another job matching a certain name pattern is submitted. The event action looks like this: SBJ P1OPS003#DBO_U_BUYPASS_PRIZE_PAYOUT_CONTROL AS ...
over 2 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Planned for future release

Ability to use SSO/SAML over Azure Cloud with Dynamic Workload Console

We are currently using DWC 9.5 FP5 and would like the capability to use Azure SSO/SAML for authentication of our user groups. We were able to get pretty far in the process in that, we could: Enable SAML 2.0 via the server.xml file Connect to our S...
over 2 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Planned for future release

Add information on the Job status change event to distinguish between ABENDs of jobs that are automatically recovered and the ones that require a manual intervention.

To achieve Service cafe integration with IWA and automate the ticket creation process which we are currently doing manually. We have certain use cases that needs to differentiate the job abend scenarios and create the tickets accordingly.
over 2 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Planned for future release

Parameterization of the percentage in the message "EQQMC09W THE ACTUAL NUMBER OF OCCURENCES IS occnum IT HAS EXCEEDED THE percent OF THE MAXOCCNUM VALUE"

I'm asking for the possibility to set a different threshold for trigger the message EQQMC09W THE ACTUAL NUMBER OF OCCURENCES IS occnum IT HAS EXCEEDED THE percent OF THE MAXOCCNUM VALUE Now this message is issued for 80% and 90% thresholds but th...
over 2 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Planned for future release