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Would like Centralized Agent upgrade process to support deployment of iFixes

Currently, if we want to deploy an iFix for our FTA/DA agents we have to create an install script and then remote into each server and manually apply the iFix.It would be nice if installing an iFix was as easy as deploying a FixPack via the centra...
about 3 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

DWC to use session persistence configuration

DWC 9.5 currently doesn't support http session persistence even thought the WebSphere Liberty documentation said it does https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSEQTP_liberty/com.ibm.websphere.wlp.doc/ae/twlp_admin_session_persistence.html
over 3 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Auto start netman when it goes down abruptly

Netman process helps in sending and receiving the messages to and from the agents. When it goes down unexpectedly, it has to come up automatically which will not impact the daily refresh as well.
10 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Report for System Information regarding zCentric workstations in IWSz

For ABNAMRO client, that has hundreds of zCentric workstations, a periodic report is required for System Information regarding zCentric workstations. That is the information you can see in 5.5 dialogue in IWSz (ISPF) with the "I" line command. E.g...
over 2 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Negative selection on ADID with WAPL

We've been experimenting with negative logic and wildcards in LIST not equal commands with WAPL, but we are not able to get it to work. Thus far we are only able to use fully qualified ADID names in the LIST Not Equal statement, i.e. LIST ADID-NE(...
over 2 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

DWC: view more dependencies

In DWC 9.5 we want to see more levels of dependencies when clicking the Dependencies button. Currently we only see direct dependencies and it is not enough. Ideally, there would be an option to choose how many levels of dependencies we want to see...
about 3 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Support for containerized MDM and BKMDM on two different networks

Currently, creating two domain manager docker containers in one host machine, but on different docker networks, does not work. These DMs do not connect. Would like to have official support for having two containerized domain managers hosted on dif...
11 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Add support for IWS to work with the Workday ERP

UW Madison is in process of moving some ERP systems from PeopleSoft to Workday. Per IBM case number TS008964802, we have heard that there is no integreation specifically for Workday. The representatives in that IBM ticket recommended that we open ...
over 2 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Rerunning the single job does not create a new log but overlays the old log

Good evening, we have an idea about the functioning of job rerun in the case of individual jobs not belonging to a Jobstream. When we rerun a single job within its flow it correctly creates a duplicate entry of the same job on the console with a n...
6 months ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Improving Resiliency #3: gracefully resuming TWS services even after a sudden TWS stop

Event in a scenario of a sudden TWS Stop (abrupt kill of TWS services), the TWS Agent needs to have the capability of gracefully resuming its services after a failover.
11 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration