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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...
12 months ago in Workload Automation 1 Not under consideration

Allow Mailman Server to continue processing other servers after a failed server

Please refer to We have 20 servers under the control of a single Mailman server , Which processes the message queue. We had a failure on 1 server , which in turn caused ALL other server messages NOT to be processed. which eventually IWS believed t...
almost 3 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

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...
12 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”
12 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
12 months ago in Workload Automation 1 Needs more information

post action file transfer

Per ogni file trasferito tramite un job chiediamo che venga eseguito immediatamente la propria post action senza attendere il transfer di tutti i file del job. For each file transferred via a job, we ask that its post action be executed immediatel...
12 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Multi factor Authentication

"Background:Multi-factor authentication (MFA) enhances the security of an application by providing an added layer(s) of authentication mechanism. The authentication mechanism can be any of the following types: what the user knows (security questio...
about 1 year ago in Workload Automation 1 Functionality already exists

Allow installation and patching via sudo rule instead of requiring actual root access

Our security teams do not like providing us access to root to perform installations and patching activities. Their stated preference is that we use sudo rules. Having to coordinate the activity with the Linux admins means double the human resource...
about 3 years ago in Workload Automation 2 Future consideration

Concurrent Sessions Enabled

Background: Concurrent session enabled refers to a feature or setting within an application or system that allows a user to be logged in and active from multiple devices or locations simultaneously. In other words, a user can have multiple concurr...
about 1 year ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Auto start netman when it goes down abruptly

Netman process helps in sending and receiving the messages to and from the agents. When it goes down unexpectedly, it has to come up automatically which will not impact the daily refresh as well.
about 2 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration