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Workload Automation

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Add Terraform Support for zCentric Agent and DWC

Simplify configuration and setup of Zcentric Agents and DWC on the Cloud
11 months ago in Workload Automation 2 Future consideration

Mandatory predecessors for TWSd.

In TWS 9.1 is announced a new type of predecessors who allow waits for at predecessor, which is not in the plan at Make-plan time. But this new type is only deliveret to TWSz in TWS version 9.1. Please also deliver the mandatory predecessor type f...
over 9 years ago in Workload Automation 3 Not under consideration

Request to Add LDAP/NT/OAUTH Authentication Types to IBM Workload Scheduler - RESTful ,Webservices API Jobs

For using IWS RESTful , webservices jobs, the user' credentials have “Basic authentication with httpsurlconnection” to connect TWS REST endpoints. Request to Add LDAP/NT/OAUTH Authentication Types to IBM Workload Scheduler - RESTful ,Webservices A...
almost 4 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

This is not a new idea rather than reporting on a lost feature in TWS 9.5

There is no way to rename the Workload Broker Workstation in TWS 9.5It take the host name and add _DWB as post fix to the name. This is not good when we use backup master and long term switch to the backup master. In fact I manage to rename the DW...
almost 3 years ago in Workload Automation 3 Future consideration

Shadow jobs between zOS and TwsD : Matching criteria same scheduled date

Between TWS 8.6 zOS and TwsD 9.1 shadow jobs, the only value for "matching criteria" is "previous". We'd like you to offer also the value "same scheduled date". Thanks for your feedback.
over 9 years ago in Workload Automation 2 Future consideration

Would like to see an intermediate state between enabled and draft for IWA schedules

Most of our application teams have their schedules set up in the non-prod environments to mimic production, including the run cycles. This simplifies the production promotions as we can copy the objects and change the workstations they run on for ...
almost 2 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

CLI should ensure useropts files are created with permission that prevent access by other users

A user's .TWS directory and useropts file are currently created by composer or conman based on a user's current umask setting. Many users are either not familiar with umask, are unaware of the relationship between umask setting the creation of .TW...
12 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Variable that has the mm/dd/yyyy format and at time = hh:mm

zWorkload Scheduler provides the &ODY1 variable to populate a date when creating email alerts. We would like to see variables that allow for a formatted date and time, to be included in the email alert. For example: We would like to see a vari...
almost 2 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

control rerun frequency interpretation

Currently when a rerun frequency is defined on a job in a job stream that frequency is interpreted differently depending on whether there is a job level earliest start time on the job. Without the earliest start time the rerun frequency is interpr...
almost 7 years ago in Workload Automation 2 Not under consideration

ESTIMATED END of a critical chain in real time

Currently the CP does not update in real time the ESTIMATED END of a critical chain. Considering that we now use the 'CRITICAL JOBS' panel as the only forecasting tool for what concerns the conclusion of critical batches, having the information re...
almost 4 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Planned for future release