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Workload Automation

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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.
almost 7 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Concatenation of variable is translating to Password

Hi IWA Team, I had a requirement to put the password as a concatenated variable and migrate the code to next instance. I have created the composer file for 100 jobs and in password section i have added ${password.key1}${password.key1} Then i used ...
8 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Character Limitation on Variable length for a variable in Variable table.

Hi IWA team, We had a requirement where the parameter was more than 1500 character. We were not able to use the variable since there is limitation of 1025 characters, Could you please remove this limitation? Regards Lochan
8 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Improving Resiliency #1: re-attaching "running OS processes" in secondary node after a failover

Whenever a failover happens, we need the Agents to be capable of re-attaching the running OS processes (attached to each individual SAP Jobs) when its services are restarted/failed-over from Site A to Site B.
over 1 year ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

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...
almost 5 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Planned for future release

Run cycle based on month

Hi In TWS z/OS we can define run cycle based on Monthname ( January .... ) It's not possible on TWSD Best regards
over 7 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Planned for future release

Monitor files into S3 bucket

We would like to have a way to monitor files into S3 bucket.As same as we use a normal file dependency, client has a need to monitor files into S3 bucket prior triggering a job/job stream.We see cloud as the future statement and would like to have...
9 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Allow Mailman Server to continue processing other servers after a failed server

Please refer to We have 20 servers under the control of a single Mailman server , Which processes the message queue. We had a failure on 1 server , which in turn caused ALL other server messages NOT to be processed. which eventually IWS believed t...
about 2 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

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...
about 2 years ago in Workload Automation 2 Future consideration

The job description cannot be displayed in the job flow view.

My client wants to see the job description in the job flow view.The job description is not be displayed, but the user wants to see it in the view.Since the description contains useful information which is the user want to see in the job steam flow.
about 5 years ago in Workload Automation 4 Future consideration