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Workload Automation

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Free day rule E on IWS Distributed

Difference between IWS z/OS and IWS distributed on the freeday rule.In IWS z/OS you have a freeday rule "E" which exclude the freedays. This feature doesn't exist on IWS D
over 6 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Relative time requirements for job repetition

Implement job repetitions to start/stop relative to other entities' start/stop. Initially, this can be simple, like just relative to the schedtime of a job stream. Later, it can be expanded to a more generic relative positioning concept, like star...
over 6 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

DWC 9.4 - Critical network jobs divided by status

To be able to view all critical jobs that are running, completed or in error by allowing to set a parm to display this info before a certain input arrival date.
over 6 years ago in Workload Automation 2 Not under consideration

DWC 9.4 - Critical jobs progress bar with date and time filters

DWC 9.4 - Would like the ability to display a progress bar for jobs in the critical path and be able to set parameters for input arrival date.
over 6 years ago in Workload Automation 2 Not under consideration

DWC 9.4 - - Complex filters (multiple values for the same filters)

System: IWS DWC (Dynamic Workload Console) This request is for DWC 9.4 to have the ability to add multiple values for the same filter in a widget.
over 6 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Using event rule, I would like the behavior of the jobmaxdurationexceededevt0.timestamp variable to display differently

Using event rules, I would like the behavior either modified or customer configurable to allow the following: jobmaxdurationexceededevt0.timestamp should only display the yyyy/mm/dd HH:MM format, not the current format. jobmaxdurationexceededevt0....
over 6 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Kill Zombie Jobs: Add functionality to be able to recover from a corrupted Jobtable on an FTA

When an FTA crashes and gets a corrupted Jobtable and the Jobtable must be removed, jobs that were in EXEC status before the crash remain in EXEC state and take run slots against the server limit, and job stream limit if applicable, even after the...
over 6 years ago in Workload Automation 2 Not under consideration

GROUP of application

Into IWS for z/OS you have the group definition where you can add multiple application. When you add th group to the planning ( 5.1) the IWS for z/OS manage automatically the dependencies between the applications. Into IWSD the concept of group do...
over 6 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Update TWS/d code to prevent a command (conman start) from running if it is already running.

Citi had an issue were the "conman start" command appeared to be executed AFTER the Switchplan job was already running and caused different run number values in different areas where it is stored. This caused the switchplan job to NOT report back ...
over 6 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Planned for future release

Substring broker function

Implement a broker substring function so that parts of a variable can be used in job definitions. This feature is available on all competitive products. F.e. ${substring:MYVAR,1,10} Get the first 10 characters of the variable MYVAR.
over 6 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Planned for future release