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Workload Automation

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Make the 4 minutes fixed deadline of ONOVERLAP DONOTSTART flexible or provide a new option

We need to be able to add a waiting time to the ONOVERLAP DONOTSTART setting in a stream, this is now hard coded to 4 minutes.OrProvide us with a new option, something like ONOVERLAP CANCEL. Which would cancel itself automatically when the next in...
over 5 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

On executable job the argument BOX should be numbered and extendable to facilitate visualization/alteration.

On executable job, the argument BOX should be numbered and extendable to facilitate visualization/alteration. We are converting Control-m to IWs , and numbering the argument box will facilitate when you have to do some alteration on a parm. Exampl...
over 5 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Planned for future release

SAP jobs been deleted doesn't have any control from scheduling tool

SAP Jobs being constantly deleted or manually released by the end-user, causing the job in TWS side to loose its reference with the SAP job and failing, impacting the business. We'd like to have a solution developed and embedded in TWS to either s...
over 5 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Ability to programmatically change rptuser password and insert into users' DWC configurations

I support high-security policies by programmatically generating passwords for accounts used by IWS and making corresponding changes on the IWS side (like with changePassword.sh), without human intervention. The exception is the rptuser account use...
over 5 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Planned for future release

Event Rule file detection at start up

File monitoring in Event Rules currently does not detect pre-existing files at startup. I would like to option to have file be detected at monman startup.The PMR field does not accept the new Sales Force case number it is (TS001148396)
over 5 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

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

Centralized Update: Ability to change BACKUP_DIR, TMP_DIR and other parameters dynamically

Have ability to specified parameters like BACKUP_DIR or TMP_DIR or launch pre-script to change theses values before start centralized update from DWC.
almost 6 years ago in Workload Automation 4 Planned for future release

Additional Parameter Option for Filemonitor

We would like an additional parameter added to the filemonitor process to allow the ability to relocate a file that has been preciously found and recorded into the filemonitor database.
almost 6 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Use a variable table associated to a jobsstream workstation when the jobs workstation is different

I want to use a variable table associated to a jobsstream workstation when the jobs workstation is different from Jobsstream workstation.I want to use both variable tables.
almost 6 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration