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Workload Automation

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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...
about 6 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

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

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

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

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 9 years ago in Workload Automation 2 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

Make the 4 minutes fixed deadline of ONOVERLAP DONOTSTART flexible or provide a new option

We need to be able to add a waiting time to the ONOVERLAP DONOTSTART setting in a stream, this is now hard coded to 4 minutes.OrProvide us with a new option, something like ONOVERLAP CANCEL. Which would cancel itself automatically when the next in...
over 6 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Dynamic Critical Path DCP

Provide a parameter to desensitize the triggering of EQQP23I Potential Risk Alert Current functionality: Potential risk alerts trigger when a job on the critical network is late, or on abend even if the critical jobs deadline time is many hours in...
almost 8 years ago in Workload Automation 2 Not under consideration

Increase the file dependency length limitation which is currently as The combination of the path of the file and the qualifiers cannot exceed 145 characters, and the name of the file cannot exceed 28 characters.

Increase the file dependency length limitation which is currently as The combination of the path of the file and the qualifiers cannot exceed 145 characters, and the name of the file cannot exceed 28 characters. Due to the above limitation the fi...
about 3 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Plugin for MSSQL Jobs - add the possibility to restart from step

The request is to add an optional parameter "step" in the MSSQL job. When such a parameter is set the job is launched (or re-launched) not from the beginning but from the specified step.The step could be specified either by its numeric id, or by n...
almost 5 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration