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Workload Automation

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Notification report variable table

An event handler action to "Send email" should be able to include a %{fileCrtEvt1.VariableTable} variable whenever a job stream or a job is running as part of a stream is involved. It may be empty if the stream uses no variable table or the job wa...
about 6 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

EQQUX001 for DDRIVEN

Hi The EQQUX001 used by the IWS for Z/OS doesn't exist into the DDRIVEN component. In case of migration from IWS for z/OS to IWS Distributed it's important to reproduce the same function with DDRIVEN
about 6 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

IWS / IWA improved monitoring integration

The existing IWS monitoring agent communication with the related IWS Controller in some circumnstances can lose event forwarding. The customer is expecting a more robust connection to prevent that it can lost event.
over 6 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

TDWC Dashboard Option to Ignore Workstation Offline Alert

in the dashboard for TDWC, anytime a workstation goes offline, a notification is flashed. Asking for an option to ignore a workstation if it goes offline for times when there may be scheduled maintenance or maybe an lpar is shutdown without notifi...
over 6 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Ability to programmatically change rptuser password and insert into users' DWC configurations

I support high-security policies by programmatically generating passwords for accounts used by IWS and making corresponding changes on the IWS side (like with changePassword.sh), without human intervention. The exception is the rptuser account use...
over 6 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Planned for future release

Use a variable table associated to a jobsstream workstation when the jobs workstation is different

I want to use a variable table associated to a jobsstream workstation when the jobs workstation is different from Jobsstream workstation.I want to use both variable tables.
over 6 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

IBM Workload Scheduler integration with ElasticSearch (ELK) for logging

The customer CaixaBank is using IBM Workload Scheduler for Distributed to schedule in several systems. There is also an ongoing project of centralize all logs, from all those systems into a central ElasticSearch repository. It provides benefits li...
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.
almost 7 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...
almost 7 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"...
almost 7 years ago in Workload Automation 5 Future consideration

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