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Workload Automation

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Webservice Job: Pooling the execution status in the same webservice jobs

Hi team, We are using webservice jobs run various seeded jobs using the webservice plugins. In second step we are defining an executable job to fetch the report id/request id from the XM response. In last step we are doing the conditional checks i...
about 1 year ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Request to Add LDAP/NT/OAUTH Authentication Types to IBM Workload Scheduler - RESTful ,Webservices API Jobs

For using IWS RESTful , webservices jobs, the user' credentials have “Basic authentication with httpsurlconnection” to connect TWS REST endpoints. Request to Add LDAP/NT/OAUTH Authentication Types to IBM Workload Scheduler - RESTful ,Webservices A...
almost 5 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

DWC: enhance graphical features for successors/pre-decessors

In DWC we have graphical capabilities to present pre-decessors and successors for IWS applications. The graphical view makes it much easier to get the proper insight in the structure of the applications.However, the graphical view for successors i...
over 7 years ago in Workload Automation 3 Future consideration

if we add the job in expired stream while saving it should send / flash the warning message to operator.

It should flash a warning message in TDWC/CLI while saving the job in expired jobstream, There is high possibility to add a job inside an expired stream which will be happening globally on all TWS projects.
almost 4 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

REST API only supports basic authentication

IWS REST API has basic authentication option only. which is not IBM security approved. Competitors like BMC COntrol-m provice REST APIs with more secure authentication like bearer authentication. the same must be provided on TWS's API.
over 6 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Move Pool Workstation without having to create Mirror Pool

We need to have the ability to move a Pool Workstation around between Dynamic Domain Managers (DDM) without having to create a mirror of it on the target DDM. This would be MDM to DDM or even DDM to DDM. The benefit of this would be to avoid all t...
over 2 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

This is not a new idea rather than reporting on a lost feature in TWS 9.5

There is no way to rename the Workload Broker Workstation in TWS 9.5It take the host name and add _DWB as post fix to the name. This is not good when we use backup master and long term switch to the backup master. In fact I manage to rename the DW...
almost 4 years ago in Workload Automation 3 Future consideration

Rerunning the single job does not create a new log but overlays the old log

Good evening, we have an idea about the functioning of job rerun in the case of individual jobs not belonging to a Jobstream. When we rerun a single job within its flow it correctly creates a duplicate entry of the same job on the console with a n...
over 1 year ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

On linux JOB the JobManager should expand environment variable (if used) in stdout and stderr definition

On a JOB kind "executable" if we use environnement variable in stdout and stderr definition : they are not expanded as they should. May bhis include this another enhancemnt : possibility to add a ".profile" in configuration list of the JOB (becaus...
over 1 year ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Allow stream name alias on event rule

We would like each time the monitored stream completes or errors (multiple times a day), a submitted stream gets alias with a unique name by the event rule. Aliasing a submitted stream is not functioning on IWS 9.5. Event Rule errors. For example:...
over 2 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration