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News Banner on IWS DWC portal after user login

If there option to add cusmised Colored scrolling or fix News Banner on IWS DWC portal after any Oprator login to portal,Thsi will be very usefull to anounce planned CRQ for IWS or DWC portal or Admin can put outage details in advance in News Banner
about 1 year ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

IWS v9.4 has a clock icon that displays a selection of times when setting up time restrictions on a job stream. IWS v10.1 does not have the same functionality.

The clock icon that displays a selection of times is useful when needing to quickly select the time, especially for people working in different time zones/countries. It should work exactly how it does in IWS v9.4, rather than having to manually en...
about 2 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Server and Agent SSL certificate management through the DWC

SSL certificates have always been an important requirement for IWS/IWA. This continues to increase as organisations move toward public cloud infrastructure. This is especially true of cloud kubernetes services such as AKS, EKS & GKS. Most cust...
12 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

a new connection method be created for running processes on a Windows extended agent with Openssh (without the cygwin emulator)

a new connection method be created for running processes on a Windows extended agent with Openssh (without the cygwin emulator)
about 2 months ago in Workload Automation 1 Functionality already exists

add a security option to manage host for x-agent or pool

Hello, Security ask us to separate each application from one to another. That means that an admin A can create job on server x but it cannot create job for a server y under responsability of admin B Currently we used x-agent to manage workstation ...
8 months ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Optimize logs trace on IWS to keep track of actions by LDAP user

Actually the IWS if we make a connection to authenticate users by ldap, (MS Active Directory) on norma audit logs files (database / plan) all actions like create, delete, update any scheduling object, are keeping with twsusr owner and not the pers...
over 1 year ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Add support in REST API to set Dynamic agent offline or online.

Add support in REST API to set Dynamic agent offline or online.API should have same functionality as resource.sh. Similiar command to take DA offline (-setOffline) or online (-setOnline)./tws*****/ibm/TWA/TDWB/bin/resource.sh -usr TWS_ID -pwd xxxx...
over 3 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Planned for future release

Implement security for creating, modifying and removing ETT

IWS provited a detailed protection for the most objects via authority groups.Creating, modifying and removing ETTs in the database does not have similar security features as the authority groups implements. It is just possible to protect ETT eleme...
over 5 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Enable Database job type to authenticate to the Microsoft SQL Server DB via Domain service accounts

During work to meet an internal business security requirement the expectation to use Domain accounts was defined as a solution to mitigate the use of local service accounts within the Microsoft SQL Server DB security table. However, upon further i...
about 1 year ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Be able to change work station type

To simplify transition for objects defined on extended agent to dynamic pool agent. To be able to change workstation type from extended agent to dynamic pool on the go for migrations purposes.
over 3 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration