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Workload Automation

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Use Local Resources Globally

A resource defined on a Dynamic Agent can not be used as a dependency on a job on another Dynamic Agent in the same Job Stream.
over 4 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

IWS/About specification change of message notification from MDM

User has troubled job management due to mailman down of Domain Manager. Case No : TS001488604.As a result of the analysis, the cause was found to be an overflow of the Domain Manager message file (. Msg).While stopping some FTAs ​​during periodic ...
about 5 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Custom job flags

Have the ability to put user made flags against jobs on any workastation, in any job stream to be able to monitor these jobs in DWC filtering against this flag. Like the CRITICAL flag, but without prioritisation.
about 5 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

REST API only supports basic authentication

IWS REST API has basic authentication option only. which is not IBM security approved. Competitors like BMC COntrol-m provice REST APIs with more secure authentication like bearer authentication. the same must be provided on TWS's API.
over 5 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

IWS/IWA distributed engine improved variable management

The customer that is an historical IWS for z/OS client is implementing their first distributed engine environment. During this implementation they discovered that the IWS distributed engine does not provide a common variable management between the...
over 5 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

In managing variants sap from IWS extend the length of the fields from 45 to 132 characters to allow complex formulas that re

In managing variants sap from IWS extend the length of the fields from 45 to 132 characters to allow complex formulas that require a length of over 45 cha.
over 6 years ago in Workload Automation 3 Future consideration

Free day rule E on IWS Distributed

Difference between IWS z/OS and IWS distributed on the freeday rule.In IWS z/OS you have a freeday rule "E" which exclude the freedays. This feature doesn't exist on IWS D
over 6 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Length of object

The limit on the length of object. This is the list of length TWSD Object LengthJOB 40login 47workstation 16jobstream 16resource 8user 47calendar 8vartable 80varname 16workstation class 16workload application template 80RunCycle group 40
almost 7 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Block ability to start Batchman during Switchplan

Following an issue with a corrupt TWS master (see TS013817687) we would like to request that something is implemented to stop anyone performing a "Batchman Start" when switch plan (or any other job/process that could result in such severe corrupti...
9 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Simplify ACL/SDOM management with IWS >9.5

Hello, Currently we use SDOM structure to limit our applicative manager to their application and to force norm usage. For exemple - For Job name: 3 characters for application code (CCX) 1 character for job type (one of these 3 letters XTM) 1 chara...
about 1 year ago in Workload Automation 9 Future consideration