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Workload Automation

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GCP Workflow Plugin: Allow Specifying Different Billing/Quota Project

Currently, the Google Cloud Workflows plugin (12.2.0.03) for IBM Workload Automation (IWS) appears to limit workflow execution to the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) project associated with the Service Account specified in the IWS connection definitio...
2 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Submitted

Record a ticket number for DWC plan actions like DB

Can you please add a feature to add an option in DWC to make DWC user to prompt for a ticket a mandatory field while taking any action in plan like rerun, submit, cancel etc. I see multiple users take wrong Plan actions in DWC, its better to recor...
2 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Functionality already exists

Ability to customize messages displayed in the DWC

We would like the ability to customize the text of messages used in the DWC. Specifically, the message that says, "User is not included in any role, please ask your administrator to include user to roles." We would like to direct users to an inter...
2 months ago in Workload Automation 1 Not under consideration

The Job run history query on DWC monitor workload/jobs panel is not sorted DWC.

The users find it very difficult to search and compare historical runs of a certain job. The actual start date and time on the list are not in order. Can the query have an Order by Actual Start ASC statement to have the result in ascending order
3 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Under review

Ability to trigger an event rule using or. Job A abends OR Job B abends, trigger rule.

Currently we have to create 2 separate event rules to do this. If we are hoping for the exact same action based on 2 separate jobs' events, why not allow us to choose Job A OR Job B in the event?
3 months ago in Workload Automation 2 Functionality already exists

Integration of Unit Testing for zCentric Agent Plugin Development

To make the plugin development process for the zCentric Agent more efficient and error-free, it is proposed to extend the existing framework by adding the ability for developers to create unit tests that simulate the agent's behavior. This would a...
4 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

IS IWS 10.1.05 Software SUPPORTED on an Oracle TDE Database ?

IS IWS 10.1.05 Software SUPPORTED on an Oracle TDE Database ?
5 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Under review

Proper Version Control of Scheduling Objects

Currently, the version control of scheduling objects is directly tied to the audit logs. This means that if you modify an object older than the value set in the global option auditHistory (default is 400 days), you lose the ability to see what was...
5 months ago in Workload Automation 1 Not under consideration

Automated Custom certificates with no down time

We have a huge environment and distributing the certificates or scripts to each agent is not feasible. Provide an automated certificate process where the new certs are provisioned on each agent in parallel with the existing ones to allow either of...
5 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Planned for future release

Workload Automation: Add support for Amazon RDS for Db2

Please consider adding support for Amazon RDS for Db2. Some IBM Customers plan moving to AWS. If they are using Db2 in their on-premises system, they would like to continue using Db2 even after migrating to AWS. This also applies to IWS DB if they...
5 months ago in Workload Automation 1 Not under consideration