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Workload Automation

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Relative time requirements for job repetition

Implement job repetitions to start/stop relative to other entities' start/stop. Initially, this can be simple, like just relative to the schedtime of a job stream. Later, it can be expanded to a more generic relative positioning concept, like star...
about 7 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Using event rule, I would like the behavior of the jobmaxdurationexceededevt0.timestamp variable to display differently

Using event rules, I would like the behavior either modified or customer configurable to allow the following: jobmaxdurationexceededevt0.timestamp should only display the yyyy/mm/dd HH:MM format, not the current format. jobmaxdurationexceededevt0....
about 7 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

GROUP of application

Into IWS for z/OS you have the group definition where you can add multiple application. When you add th group to the planning ( 5.1) the IWS for z/OS manage automatically the dependencies between the applications. Into IWSD the concept of group do...
about 7 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Update TWS/d code to prevent a command (conman start) from running if it is already running.

Citi had an issue were the "conman start" command appeared to be executed AFTER the Switchplan job was already running and caused different run number values in different areas where it is stored. This caused the switchplan job to NOT report back ...
about 7 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Planned for future release

Feature to specify Hold Time

The current hold feature does not allow releasing the hold after a period of time. Requirement is for a feature to put a job on hold for a particular period of time.
over 7 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

DWC - Operator acknowledgement of jobs in error for ease of managing multiple controllers

DWC - Operator acknowledgement of jobs in error for ease of managing multiple controllers.
over 7 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Add the ability to view z/OS Current Plan numbers in the DWC

Add the ability to view z/OS Current Plan numbers in the DWC.
over 7 years ago in Workload Automation 2 Not under consideration

DWC All Preds Option

For Dynamic Workload Console (DWC), would like to have an ALL PREDS option. Like in the ispf IWS panels, under a job/operation, option 9 is ALL PREDS option. The only option under DWC is impact view but it can be hard to read.
over 7 years ago in Workload Automation 3 Not under consideration

\^ sequence it not interpreted as caret character

For example the following example job definition (our production includes several job definitions with carets):DK01SV8880_1#JOB001 DOCOMMAND "ECHO \^\^" STREAMLOGON "SCDOM\TTBUU" RECOVERY CONTINUEdoes not execute ECHO ^^, but ECHO \^\^ causing the...
almost 8 years ago in Workload Automation 2 Functionality already exists

would like to have button to mark job to keep joblog longer

we would like to have a button available to mark a job to be kept for longer retention . At year end when we run month-end, quarter-end and Year-end jobs we like to be available to mark these jobs as keeping for extended days. Rather than the defa...
almost 8 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Not under consideration