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Workload Automation

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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 3 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

IWS9.x event rule's human-readable date/time variables display as yyyy-mm-ddThh:mm:ssZ/tz; expecting month dd, yyyy hh:mm:ss

In TWS 8.6, when using any event rule human-readable variables that display date/time, the date/time is presented in this format: month dd, yyyy hh:mm:ss AM/PM timezone Thus TWS 8.6 the presentation looks like:April 23, 2018 6:37:00 AM CDT In IWS ...
over 6 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Send EQQMLOG and AUDIT of TWS Z/OS on QRADAR

Can you create a utility to integrate the TWS Z/OS EQQMLOG log and audits into QRADAR?
almost 7 years ago in Workload Automation 1 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.
over 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.
over 3 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

A column for Operator Instructions is needed in DWC

Need an immutable field (as in panel ID EQQSOPSP option 7 OPERATOR INSTR - Operator instructions) for Operator Instructions.
almost 7 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Planned for future release

Enhance 'Takeover' process in IBM Workload Manager

The 'Hot Standby' process for the Controller needs to be enhanced to allow for a very high availability environment. Specifically the 'TAKEOVER' command should be enhanced so that it functions when there is already an active Controller.
about 7 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Limits by combining multiple job streams

Today we can set limits at Workstation level and Job Stream Level. However if we have to have a combined sub limit for multiple job streams, it is hard to achieve. Requirement is for grouping of job streams and setting a limit on them.
over 3 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Functionality already exists

DWC View Efficiencies

There are multiple DWC queries required for my Operations team to use each shift. We recently migrated to Workload Automation 9.5 and find it inefficient to manually run each query at the top of every shift (e.g.: All Workstations in plan, All Job...
over 3 years ago in Workload Automation 5 Not under 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.
about 7 years ago in Workload Automation 2 Not under consideration