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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...
about 2 years ago in Workload Automation 2 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.
about 2 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...
over 2 years ago in Workload Automation 0 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...
over 2 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...
over 2 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Variable Passing Database Jobs need to print the output value of the processed statement in logs of its subsequent E-Business jobs

In our environment, we are having database jobs defined. For database jobs which is executing SQL statement with SELECT command , we could see the output of that query has been printed in that job log. They are variable passing jobs where the outp...
over 2 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Planned for future release

passing File name with job as paramater to the job script , Job should take name of the file which is getting satisfy using file base dependency

we have event base scheduling to pass file name, where name of the fill will be the file which is getting satisfy with file dependency but here problme is FTA is dependent on Master for event part. Instead of this if we can pass file name in norma...
over 2 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Add Extended job name to the EQQE036I message

Currently the EQQ message does not contain the extended job name for distributed jobs in an E2E environment
over 2 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

In IWS Scheduling Factory submitJobStream add Variable Table parameter.

submitJobSream only supports jsname, start time and alias. For my needs passing a Variable table is required.
almost 3 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Functionality already exists

Add Restart Workflow from Task capability to IWS PowerCenter Plugin

The current PowerCenter Plugin allows for restarting a failed task, but does not continue the rest of the workflow after that task is successful.
almost 3 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration