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Workload Automation

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Proactive notification/forecast of a job run in plan soon after creation/schedule

Need a proactive notification/forecast of how a job will run in plan as soon as it is created/changed in the database. e.g. If we are scheduling a 5 mins recurring job by just setting a Start Time as 05:00 GMT (without any carryforward/Until optio...
about 2 years ago in Workload Automation 2 Not under consideration

Report for System Information regarding zCentric workstations in IWSz

For ABNAMRO client, that has hundreds of zCentric workstations, a periodic report is required for System Information regarding zCentric workstations. That is the information you can see in 5.5 dialogue in IWSz (ISPF) with the "I" line command. E.g...
over 2 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

AWS S3 Client Adapter for IBM Workload Automation

We would like to add support for Workload Automation so that it can interact with AWS S3 services to connect to S3 buckets and perform operations on them.
over 2 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Planned for future release

Two-factor authentication for DWC and Remote CLI

Provide capability to enable two-factor authentication for DWC and Remote CLI, e.g. AD authentication and SecureID passcode
over 2 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Planned for future release

SAML2.0 Integration for DWC and CLI

Provide integration with SAML2.0 for DWC and Remote CLI to enable authentication through our organisations Single Sign On
over 2 years ago in Workload Automation 3 Planned for future release

Job/Stream dependency based on message/api to support interactivity with Cloud environments like AWS and Azure

We would like to have Workload Automation jobs to be reactive/dependent on jobs/activities in the cloud so that after getting a message via message queue or an API call a dependent job/stream on the IWS side will start. Similar to how a file depen...
over 2 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

The "Actual Run Time" format changed from IWS9.3 to IWS9.5

Dear Support, Please refers to the files uploaded. The time format of "Actual Run Time" from the files under stdlist has changed from MM:SS to HH:MM. Is there any way I can keep the old time format, MM:SS? Regards, Jay
over 2 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Enhance WAT Features for migration

We observed few limitations while migrating IWA objects using WAT. Please consider below points to be enhanced in the Workload Application Template Feature in the future release. External job and job stream dependencies are not getting reflected w...
over 2 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Planned for future release

Negative selection on ADID with WAPL

We've been experimenting with negative logic and wildcards in LIST not equal commands with WAPL, but we are not able to get it to work. Thus far we are only able to use fully qualified ADID names in the LIST Not Equal statement, i.e. LIST ADID-NE(...
over 2 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

TWS Job Status 'FAIL' records to be logged onto JOB_HISTORY_V DB View

Currently, TWS design only counts 'Success' and 'ABEND' job status for Job Statistical analysis and only these records are being inserted into JOB_RUN_HISTORY table, due to which we could only get Job Status conditions 'S' and 'A' from JOB_HISTORY...
over 2 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration