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Workload Automation

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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...
about 6 years ago in Workload Automation 1 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...
about 3 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

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

ADD a parameter IA TIME in panel EQQAMRZP "Z/OS remote job info"

Can you add an Input arrival time (IA Time) parameter on the panel EQQAMRZP"z / os remote job info" ?This parameter will allow to indicate with precision on which occurrence of TWS Z / OS remote we want to associate the local shadow operation.
about 6 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Planned for future release

Filters in IWS output collector

Our IWS environment include both PROD and TEST jobs in the same controller but now a new "requirement" has arised to the the output collector that collect the distributed joblogs and transferred them to the mainframe. Today, when installing the IW...
about 6 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Modifying an Application screen

Would like to see if there is fix for this issue:why when an application in panel ‘Modifying an Application / EQQAMGPP' is selected with the modify (M) and you go through screens and do NO update and you just pf3 out of the application it will sho...
about 6 years ago in Workload Automation 2 Is a defect

Allow variable tables to be specified in a hierarchy

The limit of one, and only one, variable table to be specified limits reusability. It leads to redundancy and inhibits efforts to apply DRY (Don't Repeat Yourself) principles. This raises both development and maintenance cost.
over 6 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

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 6 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 6 years ago in Workload Automation 1 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...
about 3 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Planned for future release