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.

With the new infrastructure of the Dynamic Workload Console we completely changed and improved the creation of the dashboard for your scheduling objects.
Maintaining and keeping control of a scheduling environment can be challenging. The right solution, when monitoring different machines and environments, is to have everything in one place. That is why the new dashboard represents the best choice. You can choose to create and customize your own dashboard or use one of the dashboard templates available. The possibility to have customized data sources with information from internal plan or from an external REST API, helps you in creating the perfect solution for monitoring. By creating boards and filling it with widgets, you will be able to control every scheduling object; from the health of your machines to the list or the number of critical jobs.

Enable business-oriented triggering and monitoring of activities related to jobs and job streams. You can categorize your jobs and job streams into a hierarchy of folders according to a specific line of business, department, geography or other category that makes sense for your business. Organizing jobs and job streams in folders makes it easy to manage user or group access at the folder level. Monitoring jobs or job streams defined in folders means you don't need to rely on complicated and restrictive naming conventions. This feature is now also available in the Workload Automation on Cloud offering for new subscription requests.

Make your security management easier and more granular with security delegation. The tenant owner can grant permissions to a user on the folder named with the environment ID so that the user can freely create new access control lists or modify existing access control lists on the folder or any sub-folders.
The user can in turn give access to the folder or sub-folder to other users by specifying an existing role to which the user wants to grant the access, as well as the folder. In this way, the tenant owner can delegate the security to other users who can act independently as administrators for that organization.

Version 9.5 Fix Pack 1 delivers the following enhancements to the File transfer job plug-in:

• RFE 124923, Appending text to an existing file: The File transfer job plug-in now includes an option to append the data contained in the transferred file to the existing file on the destination system. This avoids overwriting the existing file and preserves any changes that were made to the file prior to the transfer. The option applies to file transfers of type download and for files encoded as text.
  
• RFE 123295, Deleting a source file after an upload transfer: An option has been added to specify if you want to delete the source files after a file transfer of type "upload".
  
• RFE 127294, Specifying FTP SIte subcommands: An option has been added for file transfers originating from a distributed environment to a z/OS target workstation, using the FTP protocol, to specify SIte subcommands. For example, you can specify a subcommand to define primary and secondary space allocations.

This feature is now also available in the Workload Automation on Cloud offering for new subscription requests.

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 1 delivers the following RFEs:

• RFE 124923: Appending text to an existing file.
  
• RFE 127294: Specifying FTP SIte subcommands.
  
• RFE 123295: Delete file on server after download.

This feature is now also available in the Workload Automation on Cloud offering for new subscription requests.

With the latest release, new enhancements have been added to the workload dashboard. Simplification of the use of the Table widget combined with Engine list datasource: By selecting the Engine list and the Table widget, the related fields are automatically displayed in the list without the need to add them manually.
Light redesign of KPI and Bar chart widgets, with different colors and a smoother style. Additional widgets: Bubble chart and Free text. The Bubble chart represents data with a series of bubbles in descending order and size. The bubbles may change in dimension and position according to the variation of data. The Free text gives the possibility to have useful notes at your fingertips.