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Workload Automation

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We would like to manage/control an individual Mailman Server process. Start/stop on the MDM

As with IBM/HCL recommendations, we have multiply Mailman Server(n) controlling and managing FTA message traffic TO/FROM the MDM . We have seen an individual mailman Server(n) have problems connecting with its subset of workstations . This general...
11 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

add a rm /tmp/rm$$ stanza in a rmstdlist command

because a rmstdlist command does not clean there temporary file.
over 1 year ago in Workload Automation 0 Planned for future release

Ability to add dependencies to individual run cycles

Ability to add dependencies to individual run cycles. Currently can't. See highlighted example below of what is required. We have a jobstream with multiple runcycles, but want one of those runcycle to follow another jobstream, not them all. We hav...
over 4 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Extended jobname in DWC

Customers running both the mainframe and distributed workloads often search for extended jobnames and require a view to display it
over 3 years ago in Workload Automation 2 Future consideration

allow job time dependency to be set relative to job stream input arrival to fix timezone DST issue

Allow job time dependencies to be set relative to the job stream input arrival time rather than from the Plan start time as it is currently. This is important for scheduling where the time zone of the workstation has different Daylight Savings tim...
almost 9 years ago in Workload Automation 2 Not under consideration

In DWC, Provide Excel kind of filter option in monitor workload field results, add exclusion option in monitor workload --> Object type job --> Edit option , Enable dragging option in the monitor workload results to take action on bulk job instances

We need below features in DWC future release, Provide Excel kind of filter option in monitor workload field results. For example, in excel sheet using filter option, we can select or unselect the entries based on our requirement. Actually, we are ...
almost 2 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Snow ticket creation after reading data from Excel which stores various details wrt to job

We have a requirement to automate the ticket creation using SNOW. All the IWA job details and the agreed priority (when there is a job failure) is stored in a separate Smartsheet. IWA will read data from Smartsheet to determine the priority and ot...
almost 2 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

We would like to control what information is written to the ../TWS/audit/plan files

We can see in the ../TWS/audit/plan the following messages. CONMAN |20231221|095021|20231221|095021| PLJOB |STDLIST | SERVERNNN| twsUSER| | SERVERNNN#Y-ABCDEFG-HIJ[(0800 12/21/23),(0AAAAAAAAAAZGYUW)].Y-QWERTY_JOBLOG sj YBSXLXNNN#0AAAAAAAAAAZGYUW.Y...
11 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Restrict the number of RestAPI calls made to TWSz

System : IBM Workload Scheduler and Dynamic Workload consoleActor : DWC users We use DWC RestAPI to interact with IWSz for monitoring and batch operations (submit, restart jobs, etc.) for Mainframe as well as Distributed jobs. Also application tea...
over 3 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Jobstream description in DWC

Hi It will nice to add description of Jobstream into the planning of DWC for IWS distributed. This is a funtion we have in IWS for z/OS
over 7 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Planned for future release