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Workload Automation

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Windows user rights absolutely needed for IWS to working fine

Product: IWS 9.3.0.3OS: Windows 2016 We are installing IWS on Windows OS but, for internal security policies, some user rights are not allowed to be assigned to any user (as they are high privileged).IWS requires some rights, as per documentation....
over 5 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Apply filer to Workload Dashboard before opening

The Workload Dashboard in DWC 9.3 (GA-FP3)/9.4 (GA-FP2) can take an undesirably long time to return results after opening when working on larger TWS environments with multiple engine definitions. The ability to filter engines from the dashboard re...
almost 6 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Limits by combining multiple job streams

Today we can set limits at Workstation level and Job Stream Level. However if we have to have a combined sub limit for multiple job streams, it is hard to achieve. Requirement is for grouping of job streams and setting a limit on them.
almost 3 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Functionality already exists

RFE TWS for asynchronous Restful plugin

It is necessary to make restful calls asynchronous to avoid active connections for a long time (with polling or webhook or other)
almost 6 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Planned for future release

DWC View Efficiencies

There are multiple DWC queries required for my Operations team to use each shift. We recently migrated to Workload Automation 9.5 and find it inefficient to manually run each query at the top of every shift (e.g.: All Workstations in plan, All Job...
almost 3 years ago in Workload Automation 5 Not under consideration

DWC searching job stream by job returns results for job stream with start condition monitor jobs

Currently, DWC searching job stream by job does not return results for job stream with start condition monitor jobs.
almost 3 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

IWS9.x event rule's human-readable date/time variables display as yyyy-mm-ddThh:mm:ssZ/tz; expecting month dd, yyyy hh:mm:ss

In TWS 8.6, when using any event rule human-readable variables that display date/time, the date/time is presented in this format: month dd, yyyy hh:mm:ss AM/PM timezone Thus TWS 8.6 the presentation looks like:April 23, 2018 6:37:00 AM CDT In IWS ...
about 6 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

composer jobstream output no longer readable starting from 9.4

Jobstream output from composer uses 2 line returns instead of 1 between jobstreams and jobs, This has 2 negative impacts: 1. It is much less readable. To make output readable just change font or screensize or use DWC graphical views. 2. It takes u...
about 3 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Planned for future release

Distinguish between ignored/unused/future-enhancement and optional fields in REST API

Improve REST API documentation so fields that are actually ignored, currently unused, or reserved for future enhancements are marked as such, and not as "optional". Optional fields imply that when users choose the option to use them, they have an ...
about 3 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Planned for future release

Need Remote Separate CLI component for 9.5V

TS005199456: v9.5 Remote CLI not working We have recently migrated TWS from 9.3 to 9.5V to new servers. Previously we were using remote CLI software to connect composer and edit the jobs via notepad format.
about 3 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration