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Workload Automation

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Oracle E-Business plug-in - Wait for child requests

Customers use the Oracle E-business plug-in to manage individual Concurrent Manager requests as IWS jobs. Those request may submit one or more child requests to Oracle Concurrent Manager. The IWS Oracle E-Business plug-in does not currently provid...
over 7 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

attach the joblog to the email for failing job

on SAAS, customer is requiring that in the email received when job is failing, the joblog is also included in the email as an attachment.
over 7 years ago in Workload Automation 2 Not under consideration

Agent keyword in joblogs are only present on Dynamic agents, should be on all agent types.

We are using ondemand and splunk to collect joblogs for debug and historical reasons.But since joblogs are different regarding the agent keyword in the joblog it makes it difficult to search and compare, since agent keyword is missing in many jobl...
over 7 years ago in Workload Automation 2 Not under consideration

Document statistics schema between versions

Currently the historical statistical data can only be upgraded in a single pass, and there is no way to selectively transfer statistical data for specific workstations, which is required if a customer performs an upgrade in separate, multiple phas...
almost 8 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Not under consideration

Replacing Scheduling Objects through Workload Applications

If a scheduling object definition included in a Workload Application already exists in the target environment, even though a dialog during the import process provides an option to replace it, it is unable to replace it. This is because the existin...
almost 8 years ago in Workload Automation 2 Functionality already exists

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 ...
almost 8 years ago in Workload Automation 3 Not under consideration

Workload Scheduler Console 9.3 - Persistent Sort

It would be nice if the sort function under 'Monitor Workload' was persistent between sessions. Or there was some way to bake the sort order into the Query line, so it could be saved for later.
almost 8 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Not under consideration

Grouping multiple job streams during submit

Hi I've some across the requirement to submit a set of job streams (group) while maintaining the correct external follows dependencies. When doing this manually, this means that it should be done with great caution and in a correct order. What we ...
almost 8 years ago in Workload Automation 2 Future consideration

Scheduling a Report from the DWC directly

TDWC Reports should have a button to schedule/automate the report into a job and stream (open new windows to add details of job name, stream name and schedule/rc)
about 8 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Not under consideration

Unusable ordered list of Job within the DWC Monitor Jobs table view

Defining a complex Job Streams with a clear sequence of Job execution and submitting it, you can easily monitor the Job sequence execution using the Job Stream graphical view in the Plan while the order is unpredictable and not usable if you refer...
about 8 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration