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Improving Resiliency #3: gracefully resuming TWS services even after a sudden TWS stop

Event in a scenario of a sudden TWS Stop (abrupt kill of TWS services), the TWS Agent needs to have the capability of gracefully resuming its services after a failover.
over 1 year ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Password Reset option in DWC (like older versions)

Hello IBM Team, Since 9.5 DWC don't have the option to update the password (reset/change) . This is creating big problem . Can we have any utility or option in console from where users can update their password themselves. and Admin can track the ...
9 months ago in Workload Automation 1 Not under 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.
over 5 years ago in Workload Automation 4 Future consideration

Cancelation of WebSphere batch job (wsgrid.bat) on Windows should invoke shutdown hook i java

Cancelling a WebSphere Batch job on Windows, a java.exe process started from the wsgrid.bat only kills the java process. The shutdown hook in java is not called and the job/step i the websphere bacth container is not interrupted/stopped. This is "...
about 9 years ago in Workload Automation 3 Not under 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

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

DWC Sharing boards with groups

Users can create custom boards which are useful to display multiple queries at once, but currently these boards can be shared only among DWC roles, which are very large scopes. It would be usefull if one can share his custom board among users belo...
10 months ago in Workload Automation 2 Functionality already exists

Cancel a "cancel pending" state in the current plan

Possible to Cancel a Job in "Cancel Pending" state in the current plan because for some reason, a couple of hour after the switch plan, we want it finally to run.
almost 5 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Planned for future release

Ability to synchronize TWS files between MDM and BMDM automatically

Replicate TWS, WAS files located under a particular directory structure in MDM to automatically synchronize with the directory structure available in BMDM. localopts, ~/TWS/methods/XA*.opts, security.xml, wimconfig.xml, WAS properties gets changed...
over 7 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration