​Introduction:
Our Jira integration plugin for Workload Automation represents a significant advancement in automating business processes. In this blog, we will explore how the plugin fits into the category of Workload Automation known as "Human Tasks" and integrates the concept of "Human in the Loop" to allow human interactions in approval, rejection, or adding crucial information to process steps. 

Introduction
​Welcome to the comprehensive user manual for the Jira Plugin. In this guide, we will explore the key concepts and functionalities of Jira, a powerful project management and issue tracking tool developed by Atlassian. Whether you are new to Jira or looking to enhance your existing knowledge, this user manual will provide you with valuable insights and instructions on how to leverage the Jira Plugin effectively.

Industries are moving towards cloud native and microservice architectures, which scale and distribute apps using containers. However, containers have their own challenges and make infrastructure maintenance more complex, particularly in large dynamic environments (if you are unfamiliar with containers and Kubernetes, don't worry catch up with our latest post). Containers and Workload Automation 101).  

​Let's quickly go through the definition of RESTful before introducing the RESTful plug-in. RESTful web services, which are services where resources are identified by a URI, are generally referred to as being "RESTful."
According to the standard understanding, REST is an architectural paradigm that enables the introduction of many advantages, such as scalability, performance, and modifiability, into the Web Services that use it.

​Today's data-driven society places a premium on the capacity to extract, modify, and manage JSON data, which is essential for effective corporate operations. The JSONata plugin can help users in this situation by enabling JSON querying and manipulation within Workload Automation workflows.

​Robotic process automation is a technology that is used to define and run software robots. A software robot is a piece of code, or executable, that simulates human interaction with software and digital systems. They may carry out basic tasks like moving a file from one folder to another or sending an email, as well as more complicated ones like screen scraping and data scraping.

​Do you use ServiceNow to manage your business workflow? If so, this integration is for you: it allows different actions to be performed from a single endpoint. 

​Let's start understanding Google Batch, and then go forward to discovering the GCP Batch plug-in and the benefits of using it. Google Batch is a fully managed service that lets you schedule, queue, and execute batch processing workloads on Google Cloud resources. 

In an IBM/HCL Workload Automation (WA) deployment, communication between the MDM (Master Domain Manager) ó DWC (Dynamic Workload Console) and MDM ó DA (Dynamic Agent) is implemented using SSL protocol, TLS v1.2 over TCP/IP.  WA provides Self-Signed certificates (signed by IBM) with the product and all components use them by default to establish SSL communication.  To enhance security, these certificates must be replaced with commercial CA (Certificate Authority) signed certificate for each server in the environment.
The following sections describe the procedure to replace various certificates.

When designing a workflow into job streams using the HCL Workload Automation solution it may happen that the entire process is not modeled as a simple pipeline and the implementation of the projected flowchart requires some branching and decision logic (IF… THEN.. ELSE…).
Using HCL Workload Automation conditional dependencies feature it’s very easy to solve this design problem, by reading this blog you will learn how to create and use conditional dependencies in many use cases.