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Status Under review
Workspace Workload Automation
Created by Guest
Created on Oct 12, 2026

RELATED IDEAS

GitHub & Harness CI/CD Integration for IBM Workload Scheduler (Schedule-as-Code)

Enterprise customers are increasingly adopting GitHub and Harness as their strategic DevSecOps toolchain. Whilst IBM Workload Scheduler provides APIs, Composer and Automation Hub integrations, there is currently no IBM-supported integration that enables scheduling definitions to be managed as code, version controlled in GitHub, validated through Harness CI, and promoted through Development, Test and Production using a governed CI/CD process. This requires customers to build and support bespoke deployment frameworks, validation logic, rollback processes and deployment scripts for IdWS, IcWS and IzWS environments. [yourautomationhub.io], [help.hcl-s...ftware.com]

Current Workaround

Customers must currently develop and support their own integration using:

  • GitHub repositories
  • Harness CI/CD pipelines
  • Custom validation scripts
  • Composer commands
  • IWS REST APIs
  • z/OS deployment tooling
  • Manual rollback and recovery processes

This results in duplicated effort, inconsistency between customers, increased operational risk and slower adoption of self-service scheduling.

Requested Enhancement

Provide an IBM-supported GitHub and Harness integration allowing IWS scheduling definitions to be managed as code and deployed through a standard CI/CD workflow.

The solution should provide:

  • Native GitHub integration
  • Support for existing Composer scheduling definitions
  • Harness CI validation templates
  • Automated impact assessment
  • Secure credential management
  • Dev → Test → Production promotion
  • Approval gates
  • Deployment verification
  • Immutable release packaging
  • Audit reporting
  • Drift detection
  • Recovery and rollback capabilities

The integration should support:

  • IcWS (Containerised IWS)
  • IdWS (Distributed IWS)
  • IzWS (IWS for z/OS)

Business Value

This capability would:

  • Enable true Schedule-as-Code for IBM Workload Scheduler.
  • Align IWS with modern platform engineering practices.
  • Improve governance and auditability.
  • Reduce manual deployment activities.
  • Increase customer self-service.
  • Reduce operational risk.
  • Accelerate onboarding of scheduling workloads.
  • Improve consistency across environments.
  • Reduce dependency on specialist administrators.
  • Provide an enterprise-standard deployment model aligned with GitHub and Harness.
Idea priority High

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