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Workload Automation

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Macro to determine subsystem name of the current PIF-session in Cobol

Programms (Cobol) communicating with IWS via PIF and allocated EQQYPARM-file do not have access to the subsystem name. The internal BIB-block stores or point to this data. However this block ist not documented.
almost 5 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Planned for future release

WHP IBM workload scheduler needs to be adapted to use the new SAP BO API

The FTAs are FTA159UP_1 (PRD) and FTA012LT_1 (TEST) the error when we lunch this webi pubblication report is Cannot cast class com.businessobjects.sdk.plugin it seems that the IBM workload scheduler needs to be adapted to use the new SAP BO API th...
about 5 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Planned for future release

MAXSUBJOBS

Hi, I wanted to use this option/parm MAXSUBJOBS of the OPCOPTS but was worried that once I issued the operator cmd /F procname,maxsub=nnnn I would not be able to see if it was updated and show the new value. What I would like to see once I issue t...
over 5 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Planned for future release

IWS/IWA Export Import definition improvment

The client is re-using some utilities/services JOBS to manage repetitive operations. They defined it once and leveraging on variable usage they reuse this common JOBS within multiple applications with the same JOB or occurence name. This is creati...
almost 6 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Planned for future release

ADD a parameter IA TIME in panel EQQAMRZP "Z/OS remote job info"

Can you add an Input arrival time (IA Time) parameter on the panel EQQAMRZP"z / os remote job info" ?This parameter will allow to indicate with precision on which occurrence of TWS Z / OS remote we want to associate the local shadow operation.
about 6 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Planned for future release

RFE TWS for asynchronous Restful plugin

It is necessary to make restful calls asynchronous to avoid active connections for a long time (with polling or webhook or other)
over 6 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Planned for future release

A column for Operator Instructions is needed in DWC

Need an immutable field (as in panel ID EQQSOPSP option 7 OPERATOR INSTR - Operator instructions) for Operator Instructions.
over 6 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Planned for future release

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

Alignment to industry standards RFC1123 for host lenght name

A change has been applied to the IT industry standard for host name lengthThe syntax of a legal Internet host name was specified in RFC-952.Host name syntax is hereby changed: the restriction on the first character is relaxed to allow either a let...
almost 8 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Planned for future release

TWS Job Auto ReRun Alerting - Upon a rerun event rules action TEC notification even if second instance is successful

Job Auto Re-Run is used to solve a problem where jobs will usually complete on the second iteration. For this to be a fully functional tool we need an option to only generate a TEC notification when both auto run attempts have failed. Currently al...
almost 9 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Planned for future release