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Workload Automation

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Ability to filter objects listed in the Workspace area on DWC Workload Designer screen

The 'Manage Workload Definitions' page had a Filter option under the working pane that allowed objects within the working list to be located quickly and easily. There does not appear to be a way to filter the objects under the Workspace area in Wo...
over 1 year ago in Workload Automation 0 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...
about 3 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Plugin Powercenter - try to reconnect in case of broken connection

When we submit Powercenter jobs, if the connection between IWS and Powercenter is broken by any external reason the jobs currently end in error on IWS, but continue to execute on Powercenter. Therefore the user always needs to enter on Powercenter...
almost 5 years ago in Workload Automation 0 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 3 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

IWS/IWA distributed engine improved variable management

The customer that is an historical IWS for z/OS client is implementing their first distributed engine environment. During this implementation they discovered that the IWS distributed engine does not provide a common variable management between the...
over 6 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Workload Designer: ability to change the displayed order of Jobs within Job Streams

Currently when adding new jobs to a job stream they end up at the end of the list regardless of where the job goes dependecy-wise. But the job stream can be more clear to read if the job is placed according to its dependencies. This is a request t...
almost 10 years ago in Workload Automation 2 Future consideration

Include conman/composer CLI from DWC dashboard

Along side the "Designer" , also have the conman and Composer CLI interface from DWC
almost 5 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Make the 4 minutes fixed deadline of ONOVERLAP DONOTSTART flexible or provide a new option

We need to be able to add a waiting time to the ONOVERLAP DONOTSTART setting in a stream, this is now hard coded to 4 minutes.OrProvide us with a new option, something like ONOVERLAP CANCEL. Which would cancel itself automatically when the next in...
over 6 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Configure Default Time-Zone for all DWC users.

As per Development team (CASE#TS013905559) - "At the time of installation of DWC, it will take server Time-zone by default and the same will display in DWC as well. Later if you want to change time-zone you can change by using "User Settings ->...
over 1 year ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Plugin for MSSQL Jobs - add the possibility to restart from step

The request is to add an optional parameter "step" in the MSSQL job. When such a parameter is set the job is launched (or re-launched) not from the beginning but from the specified step.The step could be specified either by its numeric id, or by n...
about 5 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration