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Workload Automation

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New variable tws.job.runcount

The variable tws.job.runcount should contain the number of reruns of a job. A job runs the first time after it's ordered the variable contains a 1. After a rerun (automatic or manually) it contains a 2. Next rerun a 3 and so on.
over 3 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Planned for future release

Customize behavior of EVERY for Jobstreams

We would like to have the option (customer configurable via optman setting or other configuration file) to allow EVERY on schedule to work like EVERY on job in that you would only see the next instance of the schedule in the plan (as well as the p...
over 3 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

IAM authentication support for IWS database Jobs in AWS

We would like to run database jobs against AWS aurora database using IAM authentication for the job
over 3 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

DWC all deps option

On TWS mainframe panels, there is an ALL DEPS option for current plan batch jobs. Users asking for this option in gui interface DWC instead of using the impact flowchart view.
over 3 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Count Status Details instead of Status when add widget Job count by status with Held job and Widget Type "KPI"

When we use widget Job count by status with Held job and Widget Type "KPI", the outer number is 1 but when I drill through, there are 4 entries. It means the outer number is counting Status but the inner one is counting the Status Details So we ne...
over 3 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Planned for future release

job stream within job stream functionality to be enhanced

Job stream within job stream is not waiting for job stream to complete and it is getting submitted into plan then continuing to submit next job or job stream.Requirement is to make sure until job or job stream is not complete within original job s...
over 3 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Disable task sharing option in IDWC

In Dynamic Workload Console 9.5 users are able to query the current plan by selecting the menu "Monitoring & Reporting > Monitor Workload".Users can also save their queries for later use and share them with other users. While sharing a spec...
over 3 years ago in Workload Automation 2 Planned for future release

TWS/IWS - develop integration with CyberArk to provide better security and password management.

As the need for tigher security increases, we are facing a need to better manage the passwords associated with IWS on Windows agents. We need to be able to change the streamlogon user (and the "TWS user") passwords more often, use a more challengi...
over 3 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Planned for future release

BigSQL 6.0.0 Plugin Support for TWS 9.4

The current version of BigSQL DB Plugin does not support 6.0.0 version. Requirement is to enable this support in TWS.
over 3 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Planned for future release

TWS Docker Container Agent support with Datastage Container

Customer : MetLifeDescription: The TWS agent installed as a container pod is not able to execute the Datastage job running in a separate container pod in the same OCP cluster. The current Datastage plugin does not have a support to execute the rem...
over 3 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Planned for future release