Control Who Can Submit to Workload Management Queues

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Control Who Can Submit to Workload Management Queues

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Workload management queues (version 9.1 and later) are defined globally in an Information Server engine. Anyone submitting a DataStage job run request may request that the job be submitted to any queue on the system. A project may have a default queue defined, but that does not submit a canny user from learning that a high priority queue exists.

To that end, I would like to see a three-pronged approach to controlling who can use queues.

(1) an administrator can block a queue - no more jobs can be submitted to this queue (except by an administrator) - this can give an over-used queue the chance to drain

(2) only the queues mentioned in a project can be used by jobs submitted for that project

(3) a mechanism (probably role-driven) be implemented to specify in the queue definition who is permitted to submit jobs to it
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Post by ray.wurlod »

I have submitted a formal request for enhancement.

Did you know that there is a new mechanismfor this - you don't need to open a support case?
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I voted for it. I also added a comment on that site, but something went wrong and I lost the first part about "circumventing the WLM at the queue level."

"Administrators need control over which queues are accessible and visible for various projects/users/groups to select when running jobs from the GUIs or the command line."

As far as blocking a queue, I think it may be nice to have. An admin should already be able to move jobs from one queue to another to clean out a given queue. A sequence calling hundreds of jobs could continue to drop those in the same queue. If that queue were blocked in the midst of such a run, then add the remaining jobs to the default queue?
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