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Add information on the Job status change event to distinguish between ABENDs of jobs that are automatically recovered and the ones that require a manual intervention.

To achieve Service cafe integration with IWA and automate the ticket creation process which we are currently doing manually. We have certain use cases that needs to differentiate the job abend scenarios and create the tickets accordingly.
over 1 year ago in Workload Automation 0 Planned for future release

Gray out DWC options if user does not have access to IWS sec file

Manage workload definitions > Select engine > "Search job definition" > "Advanced" > "search for job name that dont have access, e.g. "Unau*" > "select all of them" > click edit
almost 4 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Create SFTP-FTP for Webi Report Advanced Parameters

Customer ask to create SFTP-FTP plug-in for Webi Report Advanced ParametersIs needed for FTA : FTA041LP_1 (PRD) and FTA040LT_1 (TEST) are all in 9.5 versionHe needs to send via SFTP report created on BO Marco Borgianni was involved on this topic.
over 2 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Check subsystem availability in WAPL procedure EQQYXJPX

It could be useful to have the possibility to check the controller subsystem availability in WAPL procedure EQQXYJPX. Actually, if the subsystem is not active, the WAPL procedure ends immediately after INIT command and the job step terminates with...
over 1 year ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Parameterization of the percentage in the message "EQQMC09W THE ACTUAL NUMBER OF OCCURENCES IS occnum IT HAS EXCEEDED THE percent OF THE MAXOCCNUM VALUE"

I'm asking for the possibility to set a different threshold for trigger the message EQQMC09W THE ACTUAL NUMBER OF OCCURENCES IS occnum IT HAS EXCEEDED THE percent OF THE MAXOCCNUM VALUE Now this message is issued for 80% and 90% thresholds but th...
over 1 year ago in Workload Automation 0 Planned for future release

Modify how DA launches a job to mimic how FTA launches the same job

FTA launches a job by first launching jobmanrc and then if LOCAL_RC_OK is set to true, it launches .jobmanrc in the logon user's home dir. In this process, it never sets the variable PATH. A DA launches a job by first launching taskLauncher.sh and...
about 4 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Copy job logs

On a job creation (e.g. executable type), under environment tab we have , Standard input, Standard output, Standard error. This capabilities allows to provide a path to send the joblog. Allthough for job types like "SAP JOB ON DYNAMIC WORKSTATIONS...
over 2 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

IWS subtasks statistics

We have seen several errors in stats of IWS, the length of counters is incorrect and for that the most significant digit is lost (when next number to 99999 is 0).We need at least 7 digits in partial counters an 8 digits in total ones, according wi...
almost 5 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Connect IWS CLI (conman/composer) DIRECTLY to Win/AD using LDAP

Instead of using the useropts_twsxxxx file to authenticate IWS users credentials , can we directly go to our Win/AD system via LDAP to authenticate this way. eg removed the useropts. file
over 1 year ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

ESTIMATED END of a critical chain in real time

Currently the CP does not update in real time the ESTIMATED END of a critical chain. Considering that we now use the 'CRITICAL JOBS' panel as the only forecasting tool for what concerns the conclusion of critical batches, having the information re...
over 3 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Planned for future release