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IBM Workload Scheduler satisfies Requests for Enhancements (RFEs). Requests for Enhancements (RFEs) give customers the opportunity to collaborate directly with the product development team and other users. The team prioritizes and develops new product features based on proposals made by customers. IBM Workload Scheduler V9.5 Fix Pack 2 delivers the following RFEs:

• RFE 138951: Support for an existing Oracle user.
  
• RFE 132029: Add run number check within MakePlan before locking the database.
• RFE: Allow configuration of the value for the global option untilDays.

Folder support has been extended to all scheduling objects. Gain greater business agility by organizing your scheduling objects in a hierarchy of folders. Organize them by lines of business, departments, geographies, or any custom category that makes sense for your business operations.
Move your objects into sub-folders, in batch mode, where the folder names are based on tokens contained in the names of the scheduling objects using the composer rename command.
Filtering for and monitoring your scheduling objects defined in folders means you no longer have to rely on complicated and restrictive naming conventions.
Furthermore, you can associate access control lists to individual folders to manage the security of your scheduling objects.

You can now encrypt your passwords using the {xor} or {aes} encoding before launching the installation scripts. To encrypt the passwords, you run a simple script, then provide the encrypted output to the installation commands (configureDb, serverinst, and dwcinst) or save it to the properties files for each command and run the installation process using the properties files.
The encryption mechanism is based on WebSphere Application Server Liberty Base, therefore you have to install WebSphere Application Server Liberty Base before you start installing the product, if you plan to use encrypted passwords.

Workload Automation, Lutist Development Kit is the new tool that enables you to create and publish your own integrations.

Ensure continuous operations with automatic failover and high availability capabilities. The automatic failover feature invokes an automatic switch from the master domain manager, event manager, or both, to a backup. Eligible backups for both the master domain manager and the event manager can be specified in separate lists, adding preferred backups at the top of the list. The backup engines monitor specific behaviors on the master domain manager to detect anomalous behavior (WebSphere Application Server Liberty Base is down, processes on the FTA of the master are down, or connection to database is lost due to a network outage). When the active master becomes unavailable, a long-term switchmgr operation is triggered.
In a high availability configuration, where the master and backup masters are configured behind a load balancer, workload requests are distributed across contactable backups, in addition to the master.

Starting from this release, you can define a number of scheduling objects into folders. This might result in long names for scheduling objects, a scenario which is now supported in the security file.
By default, this feature is disabled. To enable it, set the enSecFileExtendedFields global option to yes, as explained in Global options - detailed description. The change becomes effective as soon as you modify a security object.