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Workload Automation

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Increase the Limitation on 16 Characters for the JobStream name

Increase the Limitation on 16 Characters for the JobStream name. I
almost 9 years ago in Workload Automation 3 Not under consideration

Enable user impersonation in docker Zcentric agents for running the jobs under different application usernames.

For now, IWS have limitation on executing the jobs only under wauser in docker zCentric agents and per IBM documentation user impersonation is not feasible on docker agents. In a traditional TWS environment, user impersonation is possible. We are ...
almost 2 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Not under consideration

Mandatory predecessors for TWSd.

In TWS 9.1 is announced a new type of predecessors who allow waits for at predecessor, which is not in the plan at Make-plan time. But this new type is only deliveret to TWSz in TWS version 9.1. Please also deliver the mandatory predecessor type f...
over 9 years ago in Workload Automation 3 Not under consideration

control rerun frequency interpretation

Currently when a rerun frequency is defined on a job in a job stream that frequency is interpreted differently depending on whether there is a job level earliest start time on the job. Without the earliest start time the rerun frequency is interpr...
almost 7 years ago in Workload Automation 2 Not under consideration

Possible to see workstation pools associated or defined for an agent workstation.

TWS version 8.6.0.1TDWC version 8.6.0.1Possible to see workstation pools associated or defined for an agent workstation.In critical situations where a server with a TWS agent goes down or have severe performance problems, it is necessary,to identi...
over 11 years ago in Workload Automation 7 Not under consideration

Provide ability to unschedule previously scheduled work in Maximo Scheduler.

In Maximo Scheduler, there is currently no ability to unschedule work that has already been scheduled. Can you please provide a way to do this? The reason this is so important to me, and my organization is that sometimes we have to deschedule work...
about 1 year ago in Workload Automation 1 Not under consideration

Kill Zombie Jobs: Add functionality to be able to recover from a corrupted Jobtable on an FTA

When an FTA crashes and gets a corrupted Jobtable and the Jobtable must be removed, jobs that were in EXEC status before the crash remain in EXEC state and take run slots against the server limit, and job stream limit if applicable, even after the...
over 6 years ago in Workload Automation 2 Not under consideration

twsinst efficiency improvements

Ref: TS011706916 We've noted when upgrading from 9.4 to 9.5, and also when applying fixpacks to 9.5, that twsinst is performing "copy" operations on all the files in the stdlist directory instead of "move" operations. This has led to two issues du...
about 1 year ago in Workload Automation 2 Not under consideration

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...
over 2 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Not under consideration

TWS Obsolete Jobs Removal

Hello Team, We are looking for removal TWS Obsolete Jobs from the Symphony Plan. We have observed that there jobs which are 6 months older are being carry forwarded daily in the next day Plan. This is causing load on the FINAL stream. I have updat...
about 1 year ago in Workload Automation 2 Not under consideration