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Workload Automation

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No Operation

The No Operation field does not show up on the Plan List nor can it be seen on the Data Base in View Mode.
over 6 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Have DWC role "API USER" control who can access a RESTAPI that runs against a zWS controller

Currently giving a userid the API USER role does not give the user access to run RESTAPI, neither does a user need to have the RESTAPI role so that they can run a RESTAPI against a zWS controller. All that is needed is the RACF userid and password...
about 2 years ago in Workload Automation 1 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 4 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

TDWC does not have the flexibility of 5.1 in ISPF TWS dialog

The flexibility of 5.1 in ISPF TWS dialog is not available in TDWC - see TS001756747 Above asks for a PMR iD but PMR's have been replaced by case numbers (Sales Force) but this system does not recognise case numbers!
over 6 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Additional job EVERY behaviour

A new job EVERY feature that makes a job rerun instance always run on its defined frequency, without being dependant on the ending of the previous instance. Now, a new job instance is created after the previous instance has ended. Sometimes multip...
over 6 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Add User and Domain to Explore Area of Workload Designer.

Add User and Domain objects to the Explore Area in the Workload Designer. When opening the TWSd DWC Workload Design in v10.1, the Explore area displays boxes for objects listing how many there are of each object. You can easily click on any one of...
over 2 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Functionality already exists

Add Terraform Support for zCentric Agent and DWC

Simplify configuration and setup of Zcentric Agents and DWC on the Cloud
over 2 years ago in Workload Automation 2 Future 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 4 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

CLI should ensure useropts files are created with permission that prevent access by other users

A user's .TWS directory and useropts file are currently created by composer or conman based on a user's current umask setting. Many users are either not familiar with umask, are unaware of the relationship between umask setting the creation of .TW...
over 2 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Allow event handler to specify Variable Table to start job/stream

An event handler action which starts a job and/or stream should be able to specify a variable table to be used. In addition, it should be possible to run an executable with parameters to determine the variable table name. An absolute name could be...
almost 7 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration