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Workload Automation

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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.
almost 6 years ago in Workload Automation 4 Future consideration

Simplify ACL/SDOM management with IWS >9.5

Hello, Currently we use SDOM structure to limit our applicative manager to their application and to force norm usage. For exemple - For Job name: 3 characters for application code (CCX) 1 character for job type (one of these 3 letters XTM) 1 chara...
over 2 years ago in Workload Automation 9 Future consideration

Prevent RESUBMIT job stream plug-in job type to submit same stream multiple times within same minute

We have recently experienced some mailbox.msg corruption issues which are documented under case #TS014467118.It was identified by HCL that the corruption is caused by the resubmit plug-in job type and occurs in memory.We really identified many RES...
over 1 year ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

installation improvement for LDAP

Today we solved the ldap authentication problem. It was due to a conflict of two users with the same username in two different user repositories: basic and LDAP. Since there is no more a local user repository in Liberty a copy of your real install...
over 2 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Improving Resiliency #4: avoid impacts to r3batch when SAP have enabled trace to BTCOPTIONS BATCHTRACE_MODULE / BAPI_XMI_LOGON

TWS was unable to establish a RFC connection with SAP and submit jobs when a trace was enabled to BTCOPTIONS BATCHTRACE_MODULE / BAPI_XMI_LOGON in SAP system. Through the logs, the error returned was limited to "EEWO0950W the RFC user is already l...
11 months ago in Workload Automation 1 Not under consideration

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...
almost 8 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

over-come event watcher limitation

Hello, Whenever file watcher event fires for the first time, relevant file should not be in server path, else IWA consider it as old file and fails to submit the job. through an IBM case we came to know that it is a limitation of IWA. Due to this ...
over 2 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Planned for future release

How to set a password for the KeyStores and TrustStores when deploying IWA with Kubernetes/Helm Charts.

The password used to create the KeyStore and TrustStore is randomly generated. Even though it can be retrieved from the env variable SSL_PASSWORD or decoding the stash (sth) file, a facility must be provided to set it to a desired password. The fo...
11 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Planned for future release

file dependecies

Chiediamo che un job che ha come dipendenza l’attesa di un file NON deve scattare/partire appena il file viene creato (quindi ancora con la copia dei dati in corso) ma quando la copia è terminata e/o il file “chiuso dal processo di copia”
11 months ago in Workload Automation 1 Functionality already exists

plugin transfer - replace file in another local path

Chiediamo se è possibile avere un opzione (un checkbox o altro) da selezionare se si volesse eseguire il replace del file che si desidera spostare su altro path nella macchina locale dell'ftp
11 months ago in Workload Automation 1 Needs more information