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Search results: Workload Automation

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TWS compatibility with Cloud Block storage

Hi Team, We raised a case TS018127615 to check IWS compatibility & performances with Pure storage Cloud Block Store (CBS) Our Business Team is exploring options to migrate the storage from Cloud Native to Cloud Block Storage. We are using IWS ...
8 months ago in Workload Automation 1 Not under consideration

Azure pacemaker not compatible or supported by IBM for Workload Automation.

We have the IWS masters and Agents(SAP) on Azure cloud. As we are using IBM DB2 for master as primary database, DBA team uses IBM pacemaker for the high availability and redundancy. But on the SAP clients, SAP team uses Azure Pacemaker for the hig...
almost 2 years ago in Workload Automation 2 Not under consideration

twsinst efficiency improvements

Ref: TS011706916 We've noted when upgrading from 9.4 to 9.5, and also when applying fixpacks to 9.5, that twsinst is performing "copy" operations on all the files in the stdlist directory instead of "move" operations. This has led to two issues du...
over 2 years ago in Workload Automation 2 Not under consideration

add feature so that jobs in USERJOBS can trigger events for total duration

There is a significant portion of jobs that get placed into USERJOBS that are hung. We need a way to trigger events for total duration of the job, such as at 24h duration, or 72h duration. Currently there are 2 limitations in TWS that are preventi...
over 10 years ago in Workload Automation 3 Not under consideration

Optimize in-line scripts in Symphony file

Hi I recently met a customer that is using in-line scripts significantly and has over 100K jobs a day. As a result of the fact that these in-line scripts are stored in the Symphony, the size of the Symphony is huge (>250 MB) which imposes some ...
about 9 years ago in Workload Automation 3 Not under consideration

Blacklist servers in Dynamic Pool

If we have problems with an execution server during our production day, how do we stop/blacklist this server in the pool. It is crucial for us that this can be done automatic. Our production day starts at 18:00CET with the majority of jobs startin...
over 10 years ago in Workload Automation 7 Not under consideration