DevOps made easier with workload applications

If you have a few use cases where the workload application templates replicated in your workload environment are a little too rigid, then this new enhancement will add the flexibility you are looking for.

After a workload application is exported into a workload environment, the contents such as, job streams, jobs, and other objects, are created in the environment and an association to the workload application is maintained. This allows for easy subsequent updates and synchronization between the workload application template exported from the source environment and the workload application in the target environment. The workload application can be easily replaced and updated. However, there might be certain circumstances where you prefer not to have an association to the workload application so that the imported objects can be freely updated or deleted.

When importing a workload application template, you can now specify whether you prefer to import only the objects contained in the template, without any ties to the workload application, or to import the objects maintaining their association to the workload application. Even after you have imported the contents of a workload application template into a target environment, removing the association to the original workload application template, you still have some options through the wappman command line that enable you to manage the objects as a whole, such as deleting all of the objects or replacing all of the objects.

These workload application template enhancements are supported when connected to an engine with version 9.4.0.4 or later

For details about importing a workload application template, see Importing a workload application template. For information about the new options available for wappman see wappman.