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Workload Automation

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Distinguish between ignored/unused/future-enhancement and optional fields in REST API

Improve REST API documentation so fields that are actually ignored, currently unused, or reserved for future enhancements are marked as such, and not as "optional". Optional fields imply that when users choose the option to use them, they have an ...
over 3 years ago in Workload Automation 0 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

New variable tws.job.runcount

The variable tws.job.runcount should contain the number of reruns of a job. A job runs the first time after it's ordered the variable contains a 1. After a rerun (automatic or manually) it contains a 2. Next rerun a 3 and so on.
over 3 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Planned for future release

Count Status Details instead of Status when add widget Job count by status with Held job and Widget Type "KPI"

When we use widget Job count by status with Held job and Widget Type "KPI", the outer number is 1 but when I drill through, there are 4 entries. It means the outer number is counting Status but the inner one is counting the Status Details So we ne...
almost 4 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Planned for future release

Disable task sharing option in IDWC

In Dynamic Workload Console 9.5 users are able to query the current plan by selecting the menu "Monitoring & Reporting > Monitor Workload".Users can also save their queries for later use and share them with other users. While sharing a spec...
almost 4 years ago in Workload Automation 2 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/IWS - develop integration with CyberArk to provide better security and password management.

As the need for tigher security increases, we are facing a need to better manage the passwords associated with IWS on Windows agents. We need to be able to change the streamlogon user (and the "TWS user") passwords more often, use a more challengi...
about 4 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Planned for future release

BigSQL 6.0.0 Plugin Support for TWS 9.4

The current version of BigSQL DB Plugin does not support 6.0.0 version. Requirement is to enable this support in TWS.
about 4 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Planned for future release

TWS Docker Container Agent support with Datastage Container

Customer : MetLifeDescription: The TWS agent installed as a container pod is not able to execute the Datastage job running in a separate container pod in the same OCP cluster. The current Datastage plugin does not have a support to execute the rem...
about 4 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Planned for future release

Add a function to IWS to specify the notification mail encoding

We will request the IWS to add a function that sets the notification mail encoding.And it's better to change the encoding on the On the Web console.
about 4 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Planned for future release