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Search results: Workload Automation

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TWS FTA Deploy on IBM Storage Ceph

Background With the migration from Physical server to VM, our previous HA architecture which relied on SAN storage is no longer applicable.It cannot do swing over to change from Node 1 to another Node 2 in VM.Also, vMotion if having issue on hardw...
2 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Allow for wildcards on time arguments in conman commands (or more commands)

Our company uses conman commands regularly in our automation to perform many tasks that we would otherwise do manually. As often as possible, we use variables or wild cards so that hard-coding isn't needed. In some cases, that is now allowed. One ...
about 1 year ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Allow for the use of 12:xx to be used in time fields

Since moving to v10.1, we have noticed that the Workload Designer does not allow us to use the "twelve o'clock hour" in any of the time fields. This has been tested by our team at stream level as well as within a run cycle, on the earliest start t...
over 1 year ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

add a security option to manage host for x-agent or pool

Hello, Security ask us to separate each application from one to another. That means that an admin A can create job on server x but it cannot create job for a server y under responsability of admin B Currently we used x-agent to manage workstation ...
over 1 year 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...
about 2 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Search for objects that use another object

In our old workload automation software, Automic, the GUI provided a function called "Search for Use." This would allow you to select an object, for example a Run Cycle Group, and list all of the other objects (Job Stream) that reference that Run ...
over 1 year ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Allow installation and patching via sudo rule instead of requiring actual root access

Our security teams do not like providing us access to root to perform installations and patching activities. Their stated preference is that we use sudo rules. Having to coordinate the activity with the Linux admins means double the human resource...
almost 3 years ago in Workload Automation 2 Future consideration

Tool for use in converting of .txt file based scheduling object definitions to .json as payload in the REST requests.

Currently using TWS version and are leveraging TWS REST API to create a robust CI, CD workflow to deploy objects like JOBS, SCHEDULES, RESOURCES to TWS servers. At this point all the TWS objects definitions available in a .txt file using syntax me...
over 2 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Use optman parameter for progressive switchplan instead of modify script

Hello, Currently, there is two options to manage stop agent progression in switchplan : conman stop @!/@/@ \; wait \; noaskconman stop @!/@/@ ; progressive This two lines are in switchplan script in IWS install directory, one is commented the othe...
about 1 year ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Fix extranneous text created in Job Stream Descriptions.

Before 9.4 Jobdescriptions if blank did not show up in composer dump files. Now all the blank descriptions when the JobStream is editted change to "Automatically added by composer" This has the following negative consequences: 1. Dump files are mu...
over 4 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration