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Workload Automation

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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.
about 7 years ago in Workload Automation 3 Not under consideration

Handling of jobstream submissions during switchplan

During the execution of the switchplan sometimes the submit of jobstreams fails. The reason is obviuous: the Symphony file is being created at this moment and the submission cannot be handled therefore. Currently users must prevent this from happe...
about 7 years ago in Workload Automation 2 Not under consideration

Dynamic Critical Path DCP

Provide a parameter to desensitize the triggering of EQQP23I Potential Risk Alert Current functionality: Potential risk alerts trigger when a job on the critical network is late, or on abend even if the critical jobs deadline time is many hours in...
over 7 years ago in Workload Automation 2 Not under consideration

new field to monitor jobs on the plan

Create a new editable column on DWC (E.g. Monitor Job/ Jobstream) where operators and users are able to edit and put notes for each job. Today similar functionally exists on TWS/z, field "Operation Text" where it can be informed some description.
over 7 years ago in Workload Automation 2 Not under consideration

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...
over 7 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Not under consideration

attach the joblog to the email for failing job

on SAAS, customer is requiring that in the email received when job is failing, the joblog is also included in the email as an attachment.
over 7 years ago in Workload Automation 2 Not under consideration

Agent keyword in joblogs are only present on Dynamic agents, should be on all agent types.

We are using ondemand and splunk to collect joblogs for debug and historical reasons.But since joblogs are different regarding the agent keyword in the joblog it makes it difficult to search and compare, since agent keyword is missing in many jobl...
over 7 years ago in Workload Automation 2 Not under consideration

Document statistics schema between versions

Currently the historical statistical data can only be upgraded in a single pass, and there is no way to selectively transfer statistical data for specific workstations, which is required if a customer performs an upgrade in separate, multiple phas...
over 7 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Not under consideration

Optimize in-line scripts in Symphony file

Hi I recently met a customer that is using in-line scripts significantly and has over 100K jobs a day. As a result of the fact that these in-line scripts are stored in the Symphony, the size of the Symphony is huge (>250 MB) which imposes some ...
almost 8 years ago in Workload Automation 3 Not under consideration

Workload Scheduler Console 9.3 - Persistent Sort

It would be nice if the sort function under 'Monitor Workload' was persistent between sessions. Or there was some way to bake the sort order into the Query line, so it could be saved for later.
almost 8 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Not under consideration