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Workload Automation

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We would like to control what information is written to the ../TWS/audit/plan files

We can see in the ../TWS/audit/plan the following messages. CONMAN |20231221|095021|20231221|095021| PLJOB |STDLIST | SERVERNNN| twsUSER| | SERVERNNN#Y-ABCDEFG-HIJ[(0800 12/21/23),(0AAAAAAAAAAZGYUW)].Y-QWERTY_JOBLOG sj YBSXLXNNN#0AAAAAAAAAAZGYUW.Y...
about 1 year ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

In a Windows HA (High Available) environment, provide a mechanism to define FINAL Jobs and Job Streams on a virtual workstation that can be resolved to the active MDM

With the advent of Automatic Failover feature introduced in 9.5 FP02, FINAL can be defined on an Extended Agent and resolved to the active MDM. This results in turn key solution where no admin intervention is required. Unfortunately, this is made ...
over 1 year ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

When creating a DWC or MDM Database on MS SQL Server, the dbuser is ignored

When I run configureDb.vbs script to crate and populate either the DWC or MDM Database, the dbuser is ignored. cscript configureDb.vbs --work_dir C:/temp --rdbmstype MSSQL --dbname DWCDB --dbuser iwsdbuser --dbpassword ***** --dbhostname whaleshar...
over 1 year ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Server and Agent SSL certificate management through the DWC

SSL certificates have always been an important requirement for IWS/IWA. This continues to increase as organisations move toward public cloud infrastructure. This is especially true of cloud kubernetes services such as AKS, EKS & GKS. Most cust...
over 1 year ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

ALLOW ServiceNow API to allow connection to IWS plugin using a Proxy

TS013706895 I’m currently working on IWS 95.06 to ServiceNow integration using the ServiceNow Plugin. using DWC The ServiceNow instance we use at our site is in the Cloud . We therefore are required to go through the YBS proxy server to connect to...
over 1 year ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

News Banner on IWS DWC portal after user login

If there option to add cusmised Colored scrolling or fix News Banner on IWS DWC portal after any Oprator login to portal,Thsi will be very usefull to anounce planned CRQ for IWS or DWC portal or Admin can put outage details in advance in News Banner
over 1 year ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Ability to filter objects listed in the Workspace area on DWC Workload Designer screen

The 'Manage Workload Definitions' page had a Filter option under the working pane that allowed objects within the working list to be located quickly and easily. There does not appear to be a way to filter the objects under the Workspace area in Wo...
over 1 year 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.
over 1 year ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Configure Default Time-Zone for all DWC users.

As per Development team (CASE#TS013905559) - "At the time of installation of DWC, it will take server Time-zone by default and the same will display in DWC as well. Later if you want to change time-zone you can change by using "User Settings ->...
over 1 year 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...
over 1 year ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration