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Workload Automation

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IWA - add ability to define parameters for custom reporting, and add custom reporting interface to DWC

Add the ability to define parameters to custom reports, such as schedule start and end times, job and schedule names, etc. Currently, the queries can only be hard coded. To enhance this, add a custom reporting web interface in the DWC that identif...
over 5 years ago in Workload Automation 2 Delivered

Workload Designer - Working List collapse and expand feature

In the DWC, do not expand the working list every time something is clicked on or changed. If we have it collapsed, it should remain collapsed until we expand it.
almost 6 years ago in Workload Automation 2 Delivered

Integrate dynamic agents authentication with Kerberos

Enhance the dynamic agents authentication to integrate with the Kerberos protocol. The ticket given back by Kerberos should be stored and used later by TWS jobs to authenticate to external systems.
about 6 years ago in Workload Automation 2 Delivered

Display USRLEV setting in IWS via an operator command

With the introduction of Continuous Delivery, the USRLEV parameter can potentially be changed with new maintenance release roll-outs. To ensure that we are able to verify the USRLEV on each sysplex, we would like to have the option of displaying t...
over 6 years ago in Workload Automation 2 Delivered

Allow users to set their own default columns per object type

For the DWC user interface, under "System Configuration" > "Set User Preferences" users should be able to set their own default column set for how they want to see result lists for each object type. This user-default set of columns would be use...
over 6 years ago in Workload Automation 3 Delivered

Update the twsinst script that comes with fixpack 9.4 so that either the temporary directory is not hardcoded as /tmp

Please update the twsinst script that comes with the fixpack install so that the TWA_TEMP variable is either an option or points to the /tmp instead of /tmp. Filling the temp file system has an impact on other applications on the server and not ju...
over 6 years ago in Workload Automation 4 Delivered

maxdur "event" should write an event to BmEvents.conf log file

While we like the new 9.3 feature of MAXDUR, we want to be able to alert when it hits. With only options of kill or continue, it forces an abend, but that will mislead folks to think the job abended versus got killed. We would like to see a new ev...
over 6 years ago in Workload Automation 2 Delivered

Dynamic Workload Console (DWC) for z/OS Basics

Our team installed the DWC when upgrading to IWS 9.3 We are disappointed in the usability of this GUI.It's too basic.
almost 7 years ago in Workload Automation 2 Delivered

Include date/time on 251 events (unlink) to help in troubleshooting

We use/review TWS unlink events in our troubleshooting and can't tell when one happens as it isn't time stamped like other events.
almost 7 years ago in Workload Automation 2 Delivered

Date and time format in the TWDC

Under the TWDC we would like to be able to change the date and time format so as to have the following format:YYYY/MM/DD HHMMSS Timezone with a time format of 24 Hours
over 7 years ago in Workload Automation 2 Delivered