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Workload Automation

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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

Scheduling EJBs on IWS

Client has the need to schedule remote EJBs on Application Servers using IWS and for this need an interface that they can browse for available EJBs and schedule the job as other IWS jobs.
almost 6 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Planned for future release

Standardize date and time display

Allow the user to configure the display of date and time values. Consistently apply formatting across the produce. A good default format would be ISO-8601. 2018-04-22 16:20.
almost 6 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Event handler email attachments

An Action to send an email should allow one or more file attachments.
almost 6 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Planned for future release

IBM Workload Scheduler integration with ElasticSearch (ELK) for logging

The customer CaixaBank is using IBM Workload Scheduler for Distributed to schedule in several systems. There is also an ongoing project of centralize all logs, from all those systems into a central ElasticSearch repository. It provides benefits li...
almost 6 years ago in Workload Automation 1 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 ...
almost 6 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Exporting data from DWC

The feature of exporting any details from DWC to specific formatted file, say a .csv file is not available. Addition of this will be of great help for operations/schedulers across the board
about 6 years ago in Workload Automation 3 Not under consideration

Critical Path

I'm wondering if additional information can be provided when message EQQCP21I is generated. It would be helpful if the list of predecessors on the critical path that caused the message to be generated could be captured some where along with the es...
about 6 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Provide kerberos support for IWS REST API

Currently the IWS REST API only supports basic authentication (usage of hardcoded user/password combination). We need to implement the REST API using just a userid with no password.
about 6 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Improve performance login on IWS for z/OS

In order to allow to understand in detail the load induced by PIF jobs on the TWS consumption, we wish to be able to have an option to activate a detailed log of the CPU cost of each PIF. In addition, in order to quantify the quality of TSO users'...
about 6 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration