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Workload Automation

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installation improvement for LDAP

Today we solved the ldap authentication problem. It was due to a conflict of two users with the same username in two different user repositories: basic and LDAP. Since there is no more a local user repository in Liberty a copy of your real install...
over 1 year ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

DWC - Viewing external dependency graphically from workload designer

It would be useful if the workload designer could show external dependencies between multiple chained jobstreams, to allow a better understanding of the scheduling network. Currently the designer only shows immediate predecessors for jobstreams. E...
over 1 year ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

In DWC, Provide Excel kind of filter option in monitor workload field results, add exclusion option in monitor workload --> Object type job --> Edit option , Enable dragging option in the monitor workload results to take action on bulk job instances

We need below features in DWC future release, Provide Excel kind of filter option in monitor workload field results. For example, in excel sheet using filter option, we can select or unselect the entries based on our requirement. Actually, we are ...
over 1 year ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Snow ticket creation after reading data from Excel which stores various details wrt to job

We have a requirement to automate the ticket creation using SNOW. All the IWA job details and the agreed priority (when there is a job failure) is stored in a separate Smartsheet. IWA will read data from Smartsheet to determine the priority and ot...
over 1 year ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

HashiCorp integration with IWS for secure connection between DB and IWS master

There should be a way to intigrate HashiCorp with IWS .We saw security team in organation asking to use Hashicorp to secure the connection/authentication between IWS master and oracle database as we are using XML file to pass password/Username (ev...
over 1 year ago in Workload Automation 2 Future consideration

To be able to control how broker jobs execute, alphabetically vs based on start time.

Currently dynamic broker jobs execute in alphabetical order and if jobs back up for any reason, then jobs at higher alphabet order execute first and lower alphabet jobs wait even though start time was in past. This causes SLA's to be missed and no...
almost 2 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Keep Jobstream when conman cancel Js

When you cancel JS;pend the Jobstream keeps into the planning but when you cancel without pend the jobstream disappear then you cannot use Rerunsucc function
almost 2 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Allow Mailman Server to continue processing other servers after a failed server

Please refer to We have 20 servers under the control of a single Mailman server , Which processes the message queue. We had a failure on 1 server , which in turn caused ALL other server messages NOT to be processed. which eventually IWS believed t...
almost 2 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Move Pool Workstation without having to create Mirror Pool

We need to have the ability to move a Pool Workstation around between Dynamic Domain Managers (DDM) without having to create a mirror of it on the target DDM. This would be MDM to DDM or even DDM to DDM. The benefit of this would be to avoid all t...
almost 2 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

RESTART and CLEANUP on distributed d-centric agent

Facilitate adoption for d-centric agents, By allowing restart and cleanup. For usample we can use datastore to capture the output.
almost 2 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration