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Workload Automation

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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

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 ...
over 3 years 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...
over 3 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

RFE for conman to show jobs that are LATE

RFE for conman to show jobs that are LATE
about 5 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Planned for future release

Rerunning the single job does not create a new log but overlays the old log

Good evening, we have an idea about the functioning of job rerun in the case of individual jobs not belonging to a Jobstream. When we rerun a single job within its flow it correctly creates a duplicate entry of the same job on the console with a n...
over 1 year 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...
over 10 years ago in Workload Automation 2 Future consideration

Provide Kerberos support for UserIDs in DWC Engine connections

UserID to connect to IWSz controller and DB2 reporting database via DWC engine currently requires a known password. Enable DWC engine connections to use Kerberos authentication to avoid the use of known passwords.
over 3 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Connect IWS to CyberArk to allow CLI to function.

Connect IWS to CyberArk, to allow checking of password change from vault, to alleviate static passwords, used within the conman and composer CLI
over 3 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Planned for future release

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