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Workload Automation

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Improving Resiliency #2: temporarily "pausing" the Agents if SAP ABAP is not stable

Agents needs to have the ability to temporarily "pause" its operations if the SAP Database is "in-accessible" or non-writable, or if SAP ASCS failover is currently in progress.
about 1 year 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...
almost 7 years ago in Workload Automation 3 Future consideration

Would like to see an intermediate state between enabled and draft for IWA schedules

Most of our application teams have their schedules set up in the non-prod environments to mimic production, including the run cycles. This simplifies the production promotions as we can copy the objects and change the workstations they run on for ...
over 2 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Variable that has the mm/dd/yyyy format and at time = hh:mm

zWorkload Scheduler provides the &ODY1 variable to populate a date when creating email alerts. We would like to see variables that allow for a formatted date and time, to be included in the email alert. For example: We would like to see a vari...
over 2 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Workload Scheduler support for linux parameter "vsyscall=none isses"

see ticket IBM support request TS005150482:IBM Workload Scheduler 9.5 Fixpack 3 - with linux parameter "vsyscall=none isses" every TWS command freezes------------------------------------------environment:TWS Client Version 5 Fickpack 03operatingSy...
over 3 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Fix extranneous text created in Job Stream Descriptions.

Before 9.4 Jobdescriptions if blank did not show up in composer dump files. Now all the blank descriptions when the JobStream is editted change to "Automatically added by composer" This has the following negative consequences: 1. Dump files are mu...
over 3 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Extend IWS REST to contain more basic modificaton operations

Please add rest methods for IWS 9.5 to be able easily to do: Add a job into an existing jobstream – that should be a method with few parametersRemove a job from an existing jobstream - that should be a method with few parametersAdd a dependency in...
almost 5 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Able to add Runcycle to job

We have requirement where some job instead job stream should run only on Workdays and currently we split them into 2 job streams1) To run on every day at certain time2) To run on workdays at certain time If we get option to setup runcycle at job l...
over 3 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Request an add-on managing SAP Financial Closing Cockpit

The business want Workload Scheduler to manage SAP Financial Closing Cockpit processes just as it does all other SAP jobs. They would like a seamless tool to automate all SAP processes. SAP Financial Closing Cockpit Add-On supports integration wit...
about 1 year ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Event Rule file detection at start up

File monitoring in Event Rules currently does not detect pre-existing files at startup. I would like to option to have file be detected at monman startup.The PMR field does not accept the new Sales Force case number it is (TS001148396)
about 6 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration