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Workload Automation

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Critical Path

I'm wondering if additional information can be provided when message EQQCP21I is generated. It would be helpful if the list of predecessors on the critical path that caused the message to be generated could be captured some where along with the es...
over 6 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Provide kerberos support for IWS REST API

Currently the IWS REST API only supports basic authentication (usage of hardcoded user/password combination). We need to implement the REST API using just a userid with no password.
over 6 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Improve performance login on IWS for z/OS

In order to allow to understand in detail the load induced by PIF jobs on the TWS consumption, we wish to be able to have an option to activate a detailed log of the CPU cost of each PIF. In addition, in order to quantify the quality of TSO users'...
over 6 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

TWS is very sensitive to the point that even a small increase in SAN disk I/O wait, delays job execution

Constant read/write of data by TWS into .msg queues makes TWS very sensitive, even a small increase of 8-10 msecs in disk I/O wait time starts queueing up messages in Intercom.msg and eventually delaying job execution.
over 6 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Support extended characters in user name of IBM Workload Scheduler product

Government of Alberta User Name standards include a dot "." in the user name. IWS Installer limits the User name can contain alphanumeric, dash (-), and underscore (_) characters. Requesting extension of this limitation to include other extended c...
over 6 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Couldn't extract "Spool List Recipient" details from r3tool

Unable to extract "Spool List Recipient" details from r3tool. When we define email ID for a SAP job , this detail is missing when we take the back of that job using r3tool.But when we define the email ID for the step information in "Spool Request"...
over 6 years ago in Workload Automation 5 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?
over 6 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Need IWS MQ Request/Response to be able to match remote application behavior

The current design of the IWS MQ Plugin for the Request/Response action expects the remote application to reply with the message id from the request on the correlation id of the response. We need the IWS MQ Plugin enhanced to be able to match the ...
over 6 years ago in Workload Automation 2 Future consideration

Treat N/A as valid success criteria for Report Distribution Status on PeopleSoft Connector job submissions.

The IWS for applications connector does not recognize N/A as a valid completion status for Report Distributions.
over 6 years ago in Workload Automation 1 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.
over 6 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Planned for future release