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Workload Automation

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How to set a password for the KeyStores and TrustStores when deploying IWA with Kubernetes/Helm Charts.

The password used to create the KeyStore and TrustStore is randomly generated. Even though it can be retrieved from the env variable SSL_PASSWORD or decoding the stash (sth) file, a facility must be provided to set it to a desired password. The fo...
about 2 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Planned for future release

(Public) Support for gMSA accounts in IWS. Allow IWS to use gMSA accounts to execute jobs

(Public) gMSA for service accounts offer additional security and will not require manual updating of passwords. IWS currently requires standard user accounts (the Microsoft definition) to execute jobs, and not gMSA or sSMA accounts.
10 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

file dependecies

Chiediamo che un job che ha come dipendenza l’attesa di un file NON deve scattare/partire appena il file viene creato (quindi ancora con la copia dei dati in corso) ma quando la copia è terminata e/o il file “chiuso dal processo di copia”
about 2 months ago in Workload Automation 1 Functionality already exists

plugin transfer - replace file in another local path

Chiediamo se è possibile avere un opzione (un checkbox o altro) da selezionare se si volesse eseguire il replace del file che si desidera spostare su altro path nella macchina locale dell'ftp
about 2 months ago in Workload Automation 1 Needs more information

post action file transfer

Per ogni file trasferito tramite un job chiediamo che venga eseguito immediatamente la propria post action senza attendere il transfer di tutti i file del job.
about 2 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

IWS : Undo cancel pending operation

Once a cancel pending operation is executed, there is no way to undo this action.
7 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Multi factor Authentication

"Background:Multi-factor authentication (MFA) enhances the security of an application by providing an added layer(s) of authentication mechanism. The authentication mechanism can be any of the following types: what the user knows (security questio...
about 2 months ago in Workload Automation 1 Functionality already exists

The ability to integrate or move files to the secure cloud content management - Box, inc.

Our company uses Box as one of the primary ways to share files. In an effort to help automate report distribution to some of these customers, it would be nice to be able to use IWS to move files to Box. Since we already connect to the necessary se...
7 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

News Banner on IWS DWC portal after user login

If there option to add cusmised Colored scrolling or fix News Banner on IWS DWC portal after any Oprator login to portal,Thsi will be very usefull to anounce planned CRQ for IWS or DWC portal or Admin can put outage details in advance in News Banner
about 1 year ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Server and Agent SSL certificate management through the DWC

SSL certificates have always been an important requirement for IWS/IWA. This continues to increase as organisations move toward public cloud infrastructure. This is especially true of cloud kubernetes services such as AKS, EKS & GKS. Most cust...
about 1 year ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration