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Workload Automation

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Proactive notification/forecast of a job run in plan soon after creation/schedule

Need a proactive notification/forecast of how a job will run in plan as soon as it is created/changed in the database. e.g. If we are scheduling a 5 mins recurring job by just setting a Start Time as 05:00 GMT (without any carryforward/Until optio...
almost 3 years ago in Workload Automation 2 Not under consideration

Grouping multiple job streams during submit

Hi I've some across the requirement to submit a set of job streams (group) while maintaining the correct external follows dependencies. When doing this manually, this means that it should be done with great caution and in a correct order. What we ...
over 8 years ago in Workload Automation 2 Future consideration

AWS S3 Client Adapter for IBM Workload Automation

We would like to add support for Workload Automation so that it can interact with AWS S3 services to connect to S3 buckets and perform operations on them.
almost 3 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Planned for future release

Job/Stream dependency based on message/api to support interactivity with Cloud environments like AWS and Azure

We would like to have Workload Automation jobs to be reactive/dependent on jobs/activities in the cloud so that after getting a message via message queue or an API call a dependent job/stream on the IWS side will start. Similar to how a file depen...
almost 3 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Scheduling a Report from the DWC directly

TDWC Reports should have a button to schedule/automate the report into a job and stream (open new windows to add details of job name, stream name and schedule/rc)
over 8 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Not under consideration

Hide SQL commands or SQL returned when running a Database job type in 9.4 Web Console

When setting up and running a database job type in 9.4 Web Console, in the job log information it displays the SQL that was returned from running the database job. It would be helpful to be able to choose if you would like this information to be h...
almost 6 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Enhance WAT Features for migration

We observed few limitations while migrating IWA objects using WAT. Please consider below points to be enhanced in the Workload Application Template Feature in the future release. External job and job stream dependencies are not getting reflected w...
almost 3 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Planned for future release

Extracting user list from DWC

Why is it useful? 1. It is useful for the purpose of timely review conducted by every client to have a clear picture of what users have access to application and what is the type of access. 2. It simplifies the review for auditors as well for inte...
almost 3 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

IWS/IWA Export Import definition improvment

The client is re-using some utilities/services JOBS to manage repetitive operations. They defined it once and leveraging on variable usage they reuse this common JOBS within multiple applications with the same JOB or occurence name. This is creati...
almost 6 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Planned for future release

IWA - set OS priority for a job

Provide a new job definition keyword to specify an OS level priority. When the job is started, IWA will "nice" the process to the specified level (low, med, high maybe). This would be different than the current IWA priority, which only affects the...
about 6 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration