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Enhancement request to remove character limitation of event rules for variable resolution.

a. We need adhoc job having a Meaning full name, b. Tried to pass the actual job name, but we can't run multiple jobs with same job name, due to iteration we need multiple triggers. c. To add dynamic value along with Job name due to 40character li...
over 1 year ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Increase Maximum Byte Constraint on "Node" (Currently 51 bytes)

Node name currently has a maximum byte size of 51 chars. We have nodes with FQDN's source AWS that require 75 chars. We request that node name be increased to some value at or exceeding 128 bytes to facilitate long node values in the future. Appli...
about 5 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Workload Designer: ability to change the displayed order of Jobs within Job Streams

Currently when adding new jobs to a job stream they end up at the end of the list regardless of where the job goes dependecy-wise. But the job stream can be more clear to read if the job is placed according to its dependencies. This is a request t...
about 10 years ago in Workload Automation 2 Future consideration

ProcessID missing in joblogs for windows processes

CASE ID - TS003942595During investigations to identify long running issues of a job, we found that Windows ProcessID is not supplied back to the Job Log, Yet for Linux/Unix processes the ID is provided. This makes tracing the process thats causing...
about 5 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

ai scheduling

I would like ot see a monitor for my sla's (critical jobs) that can help make suggestions to reduce the amount of time that an SLA woudl take
over 1 year ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

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...
over 1 year ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

IWS/IWA distributed engine improved variable management

The customer that is an historical IWS for z/OS client is implementing their first distributed engine environment. During this implementation they discovered that the IWS distributed engine does not provide a common variable management between the...
almost 7 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Provide improved Details panel for Cisco Stacked Switches

Improve the Details panel for Cisco Stacked Switches, so Switch information is buried below the physical frames. Support case TS001215656 has the entire history of the issue.
almost 7 years ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 2 Future consideration

Certify Multi Factor Authentication IBM DASH integration with Okta

Default Authentication for IBM DASH using Websphere is not sufficient to protect unauthorized users into system. Enterprises use Okta's web-based, single sign-on (SSO) application to provide a single centralised interface to access third-party p...
over 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Monitor Workload Filtering

Within Workload Scheduler include an extended filtering mechanism on the Monitor Workload screen. Currently it only works as an include. An extended option would enable filtering for NOT containing or using AND/OR to display more complicated sched...
over 3 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration