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Workload Automation

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Webservice Job: Pooling the execution status in the same webservice jobs

Hi team, We are using webservice jobs run various seeded jobs using the webservice plugins. In second step we are defining an executable job to fetch the report id/request id from the XM response. In last step we are doing the conditional checks i...
over 1 year ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Provide and "Enhanced" Executable Job Type to facilitate migrations from competitive solutions (Control-M and AutoSys)

Matches Autosys functionality, eliminates manual effort via scripts, good for scalability, reducing areas for errors Allows user to specify profile prior to job running and before use of Standard/Out invoke Allow for the use of various credential...
about 3 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Planned for future release

Oracle E-Business Plugin for Workload Scheduler - Job isn't terminated in Oracle upon termination in IWS.

After submission, when the job is running and is reported in EXEC status in IBM Workload Scheduler, you can stop it if necessary, by using the kill command. The kill command stops the job in IBM Workload Scheduler, but not in the Oracle E-Business...
almost 5 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Documented API twsd/plan/current/job/" + jobIdentifier + "/jobsuccessors/sublist/action/rerun

We use the twsd/plan/current/job/" + jobIdentifier + "/jobsuccessors/action/rerun which is well documented but we need alos to use the twsd/plan/current/job/" + jobIdentifier + "/jobsuccessors/sublist/action/rerun API which not documented. This AP...
about 3 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Planned for future release

Optimize handling of unconnected Dynamic agents

When Dynamic Agents are not connected anymore (for whatever reason) they will generate a "message-bomb" causing the WAS to get overloaded and get stuck. I've already reported this issue in case TS003762963 (which was closed with a reference to how...
almost 5 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Planned for future release

Enable user impersonation in docker Zcentric agents for running the jobs under different application usernames.

For now, IWS have limitation on executing the jobs only under wauser in docker zCentric agents and per IBM documentation user impersonation is not feasible on docker agents. In a traditional TWS environment, user impersonation is possible. We are ...
over 3 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Not under consideration

Calendar Report, dates in the chronical order

We would like to get the dates in the ascending order for the calendar report. Currently the order is randomly, see ticket TS004361046 Thanks and kind regards Erich
about 5 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

IWS/About specification change of message notification from MDM

User has troubled job management due to mailman down of Domain Manager. Case No : TS001488604.As a result of the analysis, the cause was found to be an overflow of the Domain Manager message file (. Msg).While stopping some FTAs ​​during periodic ...
over 6 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Custom job flags

Have the ability to put user made flags against jobs on any workastation, in any job stream to be able to monitor these jobs in DWC filtering against this flag. Like the CRITICAL flag, but without prioritisation.
over 6 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Additional Workstation Columns

Our operators are looking to have other column when viewing workstations. Workstation Unlinked Time Agent Running Stopped TimeWriter Running Stopped Time
over 6 years ago in Workload Automation 2 Not under consideration