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Workload Automation

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Can we have different Dependencies on Runcycles

extend the function on Runcycles
about 2 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

IWS subtasks statistics

We have seen several errors in stats of IWS, the length of counters is incorrect and for that the most significant digit is lost (when next number to 99999 is 0).We need at least 7 digits in partial counters an 8 digits in total ones, according wi...
over 6 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Schedule X working day of the month

Hello.When planning in a distributed environment from the graphical console, I don't see the possibility of planning a certain working day of the month, I have seen that it allows planning, for example, the second calendar day of the month, or the...
over 2 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Possible to see workstation pools associated or defined for an agent workstation.

TWS version 8.6.0.1TDWC version 8.6.0.1Possible to see workstation pools associated or defined for an agent workstation.In critical situations where a server with a TWS agent goes down or have severe performance problems, it is necessary,to identi...
almost 13 years ago in Workload Automation 7 Not under 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...
about 8 years ago in Workload Automation 2 Not under consideration

Gray out DWC options if user does not have access to IWS sec file

Manage workload definitions > Select engine > "Search job definition" > "Advanced" > "search for job name that dont have access, e.g. "Unau*" > "select all of them" > click edit
almost 6 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Modify how DA launches a job to mimic how FTA launches the same job

FTA launches a job by first launching jobmanrc and then if LOCAL_RC_OK is set to true, it launches .jobmanrc in the logon user's home dir. In this process, it never sets the variable PATH. A DA launches a job by first launching taskLauncher.sh and...
almost 6 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Compression Plugin allow for wild cards when identifying files for archive

It seems as of now you need to specifically identify each file you want to add to an archive when using the File Compression Plugin with Workload Schedulers. https://yourautomationhub.io/detail/compression We have many cases where the file has the...
about 1 year ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Submit folder

We want to be able to submit a folder, with all its jobs/streams/dependencies into the plan. Just like you can submit an existing stream or job into the plan.
almost 5 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Allow the engine to load more than 250 AD Groups.

Currently when attempting to filter the Edit share list for available groups only 250 groups are shown in Available Groups. When we select All to share , in the Groups Selected for Sharing, all the groups should be visible so that we remove the Gr...
over 2 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Not under consideration