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Workload Automation

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Runcycle offset, extended math

Allow offsets of runcycles to be layered, as in recursive. Starting from a runcycle frequency statement or calendar, allow it to be nested inside offsets by day, weekdays, workdays, other runcycle frequencies or calendars. For example, to run on t...
over 8 years ago in Workload Automation 2 Not under consideration

HashiCorp integration with IWS for secure connection between DB and IWS master

There should be a way to intigrate HashiCorp with IWS .We saw security team in organation asking to use Hashicorp to secure the connection/authentication between IWS master and oracle database as we are using XML file to pass password/Username (ev...
almost 2 years ago in Workload Automation 2 Future consideration

Free day rule E on IWS Distributed

Difference between IWS z/OS and IWS distributed on the freeday rule.In IWS z/OS you have a freeday rule "E" which exclude the freedays. This feature doesn't exist on IWS D
about 7 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

DWC 9.4 - Critical jobs progress bar with date and time filters

DWC 9.4 - Would like the ability to display a progress bar for jobs in the critical path and be able to set parameters for input arrival date.
about 7 years ago in Workload Automation 2 Not under consideration

Report for All Types of Failed Jobs

We would like an option in the IWS reporting tool to display failed jobs (ex: jobs that fail because there are no resources available.) If a job creates any kind of error, (failed/abended/etc.), we want to be able to see it in a report to keep tra...
over 3 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Length of object

The limit on the length of object. This is the list of length TWSD Object LengthJOB 40login 47workstation 16jobstream 16resource 8user 47calendar 8vartable 80varname 16workstation class 16workload application template 80RunCycle group 40
over 7 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

sort of job into a jobstream on DWC

Hi When you define jobs into DWC they are always presented into the order you define them and when you want to reorganize them into a logical order or sort the job by name or by any field you cannot.
over 7 years ago in Workload Automation 2 Not under consideration

Circular Dependency View

Currently TWS workload designer checks for circular dependencies within a job stream. However, it cannot detect circular dependencies that involve external jobs. Requirement is for capability to detect circular dependencies in external dependencie...
over 3 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Run Cycle - create "ByDay" yearly run cycle

We would like IWS have the ability to create yearly run cycles "BYDAY". An example is to run the 2nd Sunday of January every year. Similar to Monthly run cycle "FREQ=MONTHLY;INTERVAL=1;BYDAY=2SU" This would remove calendar updates from our applica...
over 5 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

TWS event rule to monitor files in a Folder

TWS event rule needs to monitor file changes in certain folder and submit a job for sync in other server. For Example Master server's methods folder will be having its connected SAP server's .opts file. If any changes happens to any of the .opts f...
over 3 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration