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    Hello Team, During a recent review conducted by the Automation Support team, an unintended action occurred while accessing the Automation Policy Database. The technician mistakenly used the EDIT mode instead of BROWSE, which led to the inadvertent...
    4 months ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration

    Support 64-bit Java Runtime (Semeru) for the Automation Adapter in IBM Z System Automation

    We would like to request support for running the Automation Adapter in IBM Z System Automation 4.3 on a 64-bit Java Runtime Environment, such as IBM Semeru (Java 11, 17, or 21). Our z/OS systems are standardized on 64-bit Java runtimes, and mainta...
    4 months ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration

    Provide access to "PolicyDB Name" in Build Post-Processing EXIT INGEX02, similar to Build Pre-Processing EXIT INGEX10.

    Q. Why is it useful?A. Having access to the PDB name in the exit would allow additional actions to take place, based on BUILD return code, such as automatically creating a "point in time" backup of the Policy that just created the Automation Contr...
    5 months ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration

    Enable JSON-Formatted Alert Delivery via INGIBRKR Using Customizable Templates

    Currently, INGIBRKR (IBM NetView Integration Broker) supports forwarding alerts and events to external systems, but lacks native support for sending alerts in structured JSON format using customizable templates. This limits integration with REST-b...
    5 months ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration

    Suppression of SDF Alerts to IBM_SYSAUTO-SDF Without Disabling SA Policy

    Currently, SDF alerts generated by IBM System Automation (SA) are automatically sent to the IBM_SYSAUTO-SDF destination. However, there is no native mechanism to suppress or redirect these alerts on a granular basis without disabling the entire SD...
    5 months ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration

    Add default preference value for Model 1 APG's on the application group info panel for user customization

    Add the default preference value on the application group info panel when a model 1 group is set, currently SA is stull supporting the values defined to the apg's. If a group was defined with a preference value prior to the removal in SA 4.2 it is...
    6 months ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration

    Support for Pre-defined JSON Input in INGIBRKR

    Currently, INGIBRKR only accepts a list of strings to mitigate RCE risks. However, this restriction leads to improper handling of characters like double quotes ("), resulting in malformed Kafka messages and downstream processing issues. Enable the...
    6 months ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration

    Add a label at the beginning of each group in the generated AT

    It will be useful to add a lable at the beginning of each block in the automation tables generated by the build. For example, a label for the block for the message prefix DSN or DFS or DFH. The label could be equal to the message prefix as below; ...
    6 months ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration

    Have INGAMS report on where the PAM previously resided on

    Currently when diagnosing automation manager issues there is no quick way to identify where the PAM previously resided on, and the timeframe on when it was selected, besides looking in the logs. Ideally the INGAMS panel should have a feature to di...
    7 months ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration

    Have INGREQ CANCEL complete when Resource returns to SATISFACTORY state

    Currently if an APG has the status AVAILABLE SOFTDOWN where all of its APLs within it are SOFTDOWN and then a STOP vote is put on the APG. When there is an INGREQ CANCEL to the APG Stop Vote, this will give a bad return code, even though the APG i...
    8 months ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration

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