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Workload Automation

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kerberos support for iws agent windows userids

Provide support for kerberized windows userids for IWS. Currently we have to create the userid and password on IWSz and the passwords are entered in plain text.
almost 5 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Planned for future release

Add proxy user credentials to Amazon EC2 Plugin configuration

Within our company connections to AWS are internet facing and routed via a proxy where we are required to provide user credentials. We would like the ability to provide the proxy settings within the plugin configuration file.
over 5 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Planned for future release

Datastage Plugin ability to adjust the invoked job log

Add the functionality to be able to adjust the -log parameter being passed to dsjob. As of now, when you run the job through IWS, the output provides information from all of the times this job has been executed within DataStage. As of now it seems...
over 5 years ago in Workload Automation 2 Planned for future release

Ability to programmatically change rptuser password and insert into users' DWC configurations

I support high-security policies by programmatically generating passwords for accounts used by IWS and making corresponding changes on the IWS side (like with changePassword.sh), without human intervention. The exception is the rptuser account use...
over 6 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Planned for future release

IWSz Specific Dashboard

A product provided Dashboard specific to the IWSz end to end environment should be provided with the product
almost 7 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Planned for future release

Update TWS/d code to prevent a command (conman start) from running if it is already running.

Citi had an issue were the "conman start" command appeared to be executed AFTER the Switchplan job was already running and caused different run number values in different areas where it is stored. This caused the switchplan job to NOT report back ...
over 7 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Planned for future release

Disable multiple sessions of same user in DWC

Disable multiple sessions of same user in DWC. Same user should not be able to access DWC from different browsers or systems at the same time.
almost 3 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Planned for future release

Filetransfer-plugin for IWS 9.5.x does not support datasets on z/OS (MVS) that are migrated by DFHSM

In TWS 9.3 everything is working fine. When a dataset on z/OS is migrated by DFHSM (the storage-administrator of MVS / z/OS) and TWS (agent or MDM) is trying to upload to, or download from, z/OS, the filetransfer-plugin does an alloc of this datas...
about 3 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Planned for future release