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Workload Automation

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Job/schedule report in table format rather than just dump filr in IWS format

if any team wants their scheduls/job details in table format like ABC job runs at this job,with this depedancy(list of all depedanies),part of this jobstream etc etc so this will be easily reable/understanble for normal user than checking and unde...
about 2 months ago in Workload Automation 1 Not under consideration

increasing workstation or dyanmic pool name name lenth to as much as max size

Current mac charchater size is 16 character , but with dynamic pool , 16 characters are not enough for name as many client have Many dyancmi pool so setting diffewrnt name by following stabndad as well is very difficult so I would suggest to chang...
about 2 months ago in Workload Automation 1 Not under consideration

Custom metadata for definition objects

We would like the ability to add custom key/value metadata to all object types in the database. We utilize a lot of custom scripts to monitor and maintain our IWS system. This is useful in scripting scenarios where you need to make different decis...
2 months ago in Workload Automation 1 Not under consideration

IWS Agent installation on Rocky Linux

would be better if IBM supports IWS agent installation on Rocky Linux.
about 1 year ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Job Management Plugin needs to be able to rerun jobs in different Streams

For a very simple process that needs to rerun a job in the same stream this works fine. But the use of this would more likely be handled by a simple job rerun setting or maybe a recovery job. To make this far more useful the plugin should also be ...
about 1 year ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Allow for wildcards on time arguments in conman commands (or more commands)

Our company uses conman commands regularly in our automation to perform many tasks that we would otherwise do manually. As often as possible, we use variables or wild cards so that hard-coding isn't needed. In some cases, that is now allowed. One ...
about 1 year ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

New LWA Job Executor to run gcloud run jobs using a bearer token from GCP

To enable the use of gcloud run in the bank and run workloads on the fly without the need for a full LWA in the cloud environment
about 1 year ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

To integrate IBM Workload scheduler to netcool

We have two scheduler in our organization Autosys and TWS and what we have observed is autosys is directly able to send the autosys batch logs to netcool via SNMP traps but the same is not available between TWS and netcool and due to that we had t...
about 1 year ago in Workload Automation 4 Not under consideration

Integration of Unit Testing for zCentric Agent Plugin Development

To make the plugin development process for the zCentric Agent more efficient and error-free, it is proposed to extend the existing framework by adding the ability for developers to create unit tests that simulate the agent's behavior. This would a...
4 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

IWS Installation with sedmgr -m all

Hello, We were getting troubles installing IWS 9.5 FP07 agent on a AIX OS LPAR using the sedmgr -m all settings on. The keytool and java binaries included in the IWS package install won't work if we didn't make them a sedmgr exception before they ...
7 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Under review