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Workload Automation

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Allow ABEND of FAILED jobs in USERJOBS to be marked as SUCC or CANCELED

Starting 9.4 when a JOB gets put into USRJOBS Operations cannot cancel or mark is as SUCC when it fails. Hence in every console it shows up as an issue even after the issue is resolved. This can make the automated or manual management of batch dif...
about 3 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Critical job should part of error handler layout

The batch operators need an indication in the error handler layout, which job is most critical, so troubleshooting can be started with that one. If two or more jobs are very close with latest start time, a critical path indicator is needed so oper...
over 5 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Planned for future release

Add historical reporting features available on IWS to IWS on Cloud.

IWS on Cloud (SaaS) does not provide the historical reporting features available in the on-premise versions. The "historical reports" features should be available to SaaS customers too. The priority is on "job run history".
almost 6 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Enhancement request to take an action when all rerun attempts got completed using Event rule.

1. IWA to invoke Python script only after final attempt of re-run of a given job fails a. We need to submit script using adhoc job in event rule whenever there is a job ABEND, when all the automatic reruns/ iterations are completed. b. Currently t...
10 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Enhancement request to remove character limitation of event rules for variable resolution.

a. We need adhoc job having a Meaning full name, b. Tried to pass the actual job name, but we can't run multiple jobs with same job name, due to iteration we need multiple triggers. c. To add dynamic value along with Job name due to 40character li...
10 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Allow the engine to load more than 250 AD Groups.

Currently when attempting to filter the Edit share list for available groups only 250 groups are shown in Available Groups. When we select All to share , in the Groups Selected for Sharing, all the groups should be visible so that we remove the Gr...
over 1 year ago in Workload Automation 1 Not under consideration

We would like event rules to trigger off of object changes in the database and in the plan

We would like to allow application teams to perform updates in our production environment and we would like to have an event rule trigger when objects are updated in the database and/or in the plan and then send the following information either th...
over 2 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Would like IWS/IWA to support Postgres as a backend database

Would like IWS/IWA to support Postgres as a backend database.
over 3 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Not under consideration

IWA need to invoke script only when all the automatic rerun attempt has been finished.

1. IWA to invoke Python script only after final attempt of re-run of a given job fails a. We need to submit script using adhoc job in event rule whenever there is a job ABEND, when all the automatic reruns/ iterations are completed. b. Currently t...
10 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Not under consideration

ai scheduling

I would like ot see a monitor for my sla's (critical jobs) that can help make suggestions to reduce the amount of time that an SLA woudl take
10 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration