IBM Workload Automation Scalability

Ilhami Arikan - PeerSpot reviewer
Cloud Services Automation Technologies Manager at Garanti Teknoloji

Scalability-wise, it can be a little bit challenging. However, it changes and depends on the perspective because it just needs to execute the job, and sometimes the capability depends on the application itself, not TWS. So, if I look at scalability from that perspective, I can give a little bit low, but for the product itself, we don't have any problems so far. So, I rate the product's scalability an eight out of ten.

More than 1,000 people in my organization are using the solution.


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SR
Information Technology Advisor at a wellness & fitness company with 10,001+ employees

I think scalability could be improved. We are moving to cloud and plan to increase the number of users.

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RE
Systems Engineer Lead at a real estate/law firm with 10,001+ employees

This is a scalable solution and they have documentation on how to scale the product. We're running thousands of jobs per day across many agents in the cloud, as well as in the data center. 

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SR
IT Manager at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

The scalability is actually quite fine. I think that right now we have around 100 to 150 users that have jobs running on it.  

The offshore team is made up of about five guys that mainly take care of the maintenance tasks. At this moment, we do not actually have any plans to scale our usage. Maybe in the coming two years, we might have to. We are planning to upgrade or migrate to another tool depending on what is best for our situation at that time.  

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it_user496044 - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of Batch Scheduling, Senior Vice President at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

Scalability also is relatively good. Our firm also supports TWS/d schedules, which by comparison are significantly less scalable.

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GR
Manager- Projects at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees

We do not have plans to increase the number of users of the solution.

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it_user794079 - PeerSpot reviewer
Enterprise Automation Engineer with 5,001-10,000 employees

None! I have supported this product in literally 100s of different environments and its unmatched in its ability to scale to any size.

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it_user520245 - PeerSpot reviewer
System Administrator, Data Center Operations Lead at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

IBM TDWC makes scalability and functionality easy and fast.

One drawback would be the mail server IDs are maxed out at 6-7 servers per ID (IDs are classified as per the alpha-numeric characters A-Z and 0-9).

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it_user505755 - PeerSpot reviewer
Project Manager at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
it_user499683 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. Tivoli WLA admin at a logistics company with 10,001+ employees

I have not encountered any scalability issues at all.

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FA
Manager Production Applicative at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

We did not need to scale this solution. We had close to ten people who used it.

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it_user497079 - PeerSpot reviewer
Operation Lead and Tivoli Workload scheduler consultant at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

We never encountered any issues with scalability.

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it_user545040 - PeerSpot reviewer
OPTUM Tivoli/TWS Technical Lead at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees

We had to write a scripted solution to be able to change jobs behind the scenes. The solution runs with a specific command fed into it. We fed it this script: “CSCRIPT

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it_user498408 - PeerSpot reviewer
System Engineer, Infrastructure at a media company with 1,001-5,000 employees

None; we’ve had no issues with scalability other than time zone management, which requires some creative scheduling scenarios to account for the hard-coded plan start/end time and time differences between master server and remote agents.

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AH
IT Specialist TWS at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

It is extremely scalable. We run more than 80,000 jobs a day across multiple platforms.

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it_user453144 - PeerSpot reviewer
Tivoli Workload Scheduler Solution Architect at a non-tech company with 10,001+ employees

There were no scalability issues.

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it_user550128 - PeerSpot reviewer
Consultant at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

We have not encountered any scalability issues.

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it_user426939 - PeerSpot reviewer
AVP, DevOps Manager at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

We have had no issues with scalability. However, we have less than 100 batch servers across all environments, so our environment is not very large.

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it_user536097 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior TWS Administrator & production support engineer at a maritime company with 1,001-5,000 employees

There were no scalability issues using DM.

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it_user377730 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Analyst at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

There were no scalability issues.

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it_user496458 - PeerSpot reviewer
Tivoli Workload Scheduler (TWS) Admin Leader at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

We encountered scalability issues. There are some parameters that need to be tuned once you reach a certain level, and it is not clearly stated / explained in the product documentation.

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it_user145518 - PeerSpot reviewer
Consultant at a tech consulting company with 51-200 employees

There were no scalability issues; we managed to deploy over 85,000 server with no issues.

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it_user502185 - PeerSpot reviewer
Architect (Tech Lead BSM Infra Business Service Management-L4.2) at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

We have not had any scalability issues.

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it_user488745 - PeerSpot reviewer
Production Control Specialist at a local government with 1,001-5,000 employees

We did not encounter any scalability issues.

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it_user496038 - PeerSpot reviewer
Operations Technician at a tech vendor with 201-500 employees

I have not encountered any stability issues.

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