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Workload Automation

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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

Need Remote Separate CLI component for 9.5V

TS005199456: v9.5 Remote CLI not working We have recently migrated TWS from 9.3 to 9.5V to new servers. Previously we were using remote CLI software to connect composer and edit the jobs via notepad format.
over 3 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

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.
about 7 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Planned for future release

Estimated runtime on jobs that run with an alias

The estimasted run time is not calculated for jobs that run with an alias, it is calculated using the original job name in the job_statistics_v database view. We have a number of standard jobs accross different applications that we run with an ali...
about 7 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

IWS Agent Install Account Check Local Admin Group Windows Server

When running the IWS agent install on Windows, we are wondering if the install process could check for the existence of the user account inside a nested Active Directory group inside the local administrators group?Today the install process adds th...
over 3 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

'Schedule Report' option on reports to email the report adhoc or on schedule

On Reports have an option to send the report (history or sql) as an email. It sends it once or schedules it as job to run as required (weekly etc). Similar to how we use the Batchcli feature, but DWC does it all for you from a few clicks.
about 7 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Not under consideration

modifying the content of job into the planning

HiIn IWS z/OS we can change the content of job into the planning before it runs, and also after it runs when we we want to rerun a job. or when a customer ask us to do a modification.
over 7 years ago in Workload Automation 2 Future consideration

Have IWS Support PostgreSQL database

Have IWS support the PostgreSQL database.
over 3 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Customer should be abble to choose severity and return code for some message like EQQ0590W

We request to permit to the product to put OR RC=4 OR RC=8 for some messages and then to handle correctly the corresponding behaviour, depending from Customer needs
over 7 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

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