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Workload Automation

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Proactive notification/forecast of a job run in plan soon after creation/schedule

Need a proactive notification/forecast of how a job will run in plan as soon as it is created/changed in the database. e.g. If we are scheduling a 5 mins recurring job by just setting a Start Time as 05:00 GMT (without any carryforward/Until optio...
over 3 years ago in Workload Automation 2 Not under consideration

Validate Symphony file prior distribution

We have recently experienced several issues during the IWS new plan load. Most likely related to Job Streams into ADD status. In order to prevent such impacts for many clients we do support (+40 Global Clients) we'd like to suggest a new process w...
over 3 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Not under consideration

Would like IWS/IWA to support Postgres as a backend database

Would like IWS/IWA to support Postgres as a backend database.
about 4 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Not under consideration

DWC View Efficiencies

There are multiple DWC queries required for my Operations team to use each shift. We recently migrated to Workload Automation 9.5 and find it inefficient to manually run each query at the top of every shift (e.g.: All Workstations in plan, All Job...
about 4 years ago in Workload Automation 5 Not under consideration

Dash Board Assistance Required

Assistance required for Centralized Dash Board across multiple applications.
over 4 years ago in Workload Automation 7 Not under consideration

DWC Tabs to be named with the name of the Task

1. When a Task is launched from System Status & Health -> All Configured Tasks, the Task is launched in the same tab replacing the Task List. 2. The tab for Task list should stay as a separate tab so that other taks can be launched from it....
almost 6 years ago in Workload Automation 2 Not under consideration

Exporting data from DWC

The feature of exporting any details from DWC to specific formatted file, say a .csv file is not available. Addition of this will be of great help for operations/schedulers across the board
over 7 years ago in Workload Automation 3 Not under consideration

Modify IWSd LTP before creating Symphony

Our customer wants to modify the job stream temporarily before creating Symphony.In the case of IWS for z/OS, they modify the occurrences on Long Term Plan without modifying Definition DB, after that they extend Current Plan and make them effectiv...
over 7 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Not under consideration

DWC: enhance graphical features for successors/pre-decessors

In DWC we have graphical capabilities to present pre-decessors and successors for IWS applications. The graphical view makes it much easier to get the proper insight in the structure of the applications.However, the graphical view for successors i...
over 7 years ago in Workload Automation 4 Not under consideration

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...
almost 8 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Not under consideration