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Workload Automation

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Additional Workstation Columns

Our operators are looking to have other column when viewing workstations. Workstation Unlinked Time Agent Running Stopped TimeWriter Running Stopped Time
almost 6 years ago in Workload Automation 2 Planned for future release

Add User and Domain to Explore Area of Workload Designer.

Add User and Domain objects to the Explore Area in the Workload Designer. When opening the TWSd DWC Workload Design in v10.1, the Explore area displays boxes for objects listing how many there are of each object. You can easily click on any one of...
over 1 year ago in Workload Automation 1 Functionality already exists

Add Terraform Support for zCentric Agent and DWC

Simplify configuration and setup of Zcentric Agents and DWC on the Cloud
over 1 year ago in Workload Automation 2 Future consideration

Plugin Powercenter - try to reconnect in case of broken connection

When we submit Powercenter jobs, if the connection between IWS and Powercenter is broken by any external reason the jobs currently end in error on IWS, but continue to execute on Powercenter. Therefore the user always needs to enter on Powercenter...
over 4 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Selection with multiple criteria on model and planning

On DWC we can select only one filter at the same time. For instance Jobstream starting by A but we cannot select Jobstream starting by A and on the workstation C and other filter
over 7 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

enable the possibility to rerun a job or a jobstream cancelled

we need to have the possibility to rerun a job or a jobstream previusly cancelled
over 4 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Planned for future release

Include conman/composer CLI from DWC dashboard

Along side the "Designer" , also have the conman and Composer CLI interface from DWC
over 4 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

REST API only supports basic authentication

IWS REST API has basic authentication option only. which is not IBM security approved. Competitors like BMC COntrol-m provice REST APIs with more secure authentication like bearer authentication. the same must be provided on TWS's API.
almost 6 years ago in Workload Automation 1 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...
over 1 year ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Validate Symphony file prior distribution

We have recently experienced several issues during the IWS new plan load. Most likely related to Job Streams into ADD status. In order to prevent such impacts for many clients we do support (+40 Global Clients) we'd like to suggest a new process w...
about 3 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Not under consideration