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Workload Automation

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Possibility to query Service Now or job information and to implement logic on EDWA actions

We have a blanket approval to CANCEL or RERUN few jobs upon failure and incident ticket should not be created for such cases Certain high priority jobs require a P2 ticket to be created on failure. We have blanket approvals to NOT create a inciden...
almost 3 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Support calendars in folders with datecalc

Hi team, We need IWA tool should support calendars in folders with datecalc which will help to expand solution for various market. Since we need to modify the holiday calendar for different market. For example :- We need to pass 5th working day ...
almost 3 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future 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

To show the schedule details as soon as we place the cursor on the Job definition in the TWS DB

To show the schedule details as soon as we place the cursor on the Job definition in the TWS Database
almost 3 years ago in Workload Automation 2 Not under consideration

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

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)
almost 9 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Not under 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

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...
about 3 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Planned for future release