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Workload Automation

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Allow installation and patching via sudo rule instead of requiring actual root access

Our security teams do not like providing us access to root to perform installations and patching activities. Their stated preference is that we use sudo rules. Having to coordinate the activity with the Linux admins means double the human resource...
almost 2 years ago in Workload Automation 2 Future consideration

Putting module EQQSSCNMx above the line

Due to administrative rules we are forced to run multiple IWSz Systems in parallel on one SYSPLEX. When migrating IWSz we are using BUILDSSX REBUILD and SSCMNAME TEMPORARY to avoid IPLs. After migration we are restarting IWSz with SSCMNAME PERMANE...
about 4 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

One Tracker per LPAR serve all Controller

Due to administrative rules we are forced to run multiple IWSz Systems in parallel on one SYSPLEX. So we have to start tracker STCs for each of our multiple IWSz controllers on every system of the SYSPLEX. As the tracker STCs all do the same work ...
about 4 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

We would like to control what information is written to the ../TWS/audit/plan files

We can see in the ../TWS/audit/plan the following messages. CONMAN |20231221|095021|20231221|095021| PLJOB |STDLIST | SERVERNNN| twsUSER| | SERVERNNN#Y-ABCDEFG-HIJ[(0800 12/21/23),(0AAAAAAAAAAZGYUW)].Y-QWERTY_JOBLOG sj YBSXLXNNN#0AAAAAAAAAAZGYUW.Y...
7 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Can we have different Dependencies on Runcycles

extend the function on Runcycles
about 1 year ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Centralized Update: Ability to change BACKUP_DIR, TMP_DIR and other parameters dynamically

Have ability to specified parameters like BACKUP_DIR or TMP_DIR or launch pre-script to change theses values before start centralized update from DWC.
about 6 years ago in Workload Automation 4 Planned for future release

Key rotation values in mdm-certificate.yaml needs to updated using the main values.yaml

The key rotation is set in helm_charts/ibm-workload-automation-prod/charts/wa-server-prod/templates/mdm-certificate.yaml. Customers who deploy using the https://github.com/WorkloadAutomation/ibm-workload-automation-chart/blob/master/stable/workloa...
8 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Planned for future release

changePassword required for IWS 9.5

In earlier version of IWS/TWS the product supplied a changePassword.sh script that could be used to change the password of the users and made all of the necessary changes to WebSphere etc. In 9.5 it seems a step backwards that this now has to be p...
over 4 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Planned for future release

Provide kerberos support for IWS REST API

Currently the IWS REST API only supports basic authentication (usage of hardcoded user/password combination). We need to implement the REST API using just a userid with no password.
over 6 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

In a Windows HA (High Available) environment, provide a mechanism to define FINAL Jobs and Job Streams on a virtual workstation that can be resolved to the active MDM

With the advent of Automatic Failover feature introduced in 9.5 FP02, FINAL can be defined on an Extended Agent and resolved to the active MDM. This results in turn key solution where no admin intervention is required. Unfortunately, this is made ...
8 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration