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IBM Z System Automation

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Digital - default range machine for enhanced signal producing device for water splitting

Digital default machine-device for enhanced signal producing device with inbuilt provision in cars for water splitting feature supported by small size quantum battery with automatic on / off facility
5 months ago in IBM Z System Automation 1 Not under consideration

Enhance length of command processing line to a number > 217 chars

We have written several long pipes within the command processing entries that have gone longer than 217 characters - even with using every synonym available. We have had to use creative ways to pass the results of one command line down to become i...
7 months ago in IBM Z System Automation 1 Not under consideration

Customer is issuing INGIMS with a transaction as the command and getting DFS165 hh:mm:ss COMMAND VERB IS INVALID

INGIMS apparently passes IMS commands using this Multiple Console Support (MCS) which we had enabled by defining the IMS parameter CMDMCS=Y (the default was N). Basically INGIMS will simply prefix whatever has been specified with the IMSsubid and ...
about 1 year ago in IBM Z System Automation 2 Not under consideration

It would be helpful to set an automation symbol instead of a "=" or the system name in the Supporting Resource of the APLs in the policy

We have an APL (IE01FD1) that has a Supporting Resource (IE01CTL). Since the Supporting Resource runs on different systems (X21, Y21 and Z21), we must define the APL three times (IE01FD1_PLEXX, IE01FD1_PLEXY and IE01FD1_PLEXZ) and in it the Resour...
about 1 year ago in IBM Z System Automation 1 Not under consideration

Policy build report improvements.

We have a single policy database that contains Sandpit systems. We would like to perform a full build of the policy database, but to have the flexibility to exclude test systems as we're not interested in these. This would significantly improve ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Not under consideration

UPDATE ING141I MESSAGE TO INCLUDE DETAILS OF THE TEXT SENT

When an alert is successfully set, you get an informational message in the NETLOG: ING141I SENDING OF ALERT 'SEVMINOR' FOR 'CNMPROC/APL/S104' WAS SUCCESSFUL It would be useful if the text sent in the alert could be included.
over 1 year ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Not under consideration

Provide sample members for user command exits to execute parallel to existing command exits.

I have found during testing of command exits that offloading some of the work to a local autotask executing a local exec greatly improves customer/operator experience. To closely relate the IBM default exit with the local exec executing in paralle...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 1 Not under consideration

REMOVE MAINTENANCE OF POLICY DATABASES AND BUILD,REFRESH PROCESS FOR ACF FILE

make all automation configuration dynamic with not maintaining policy databases/customization separately, instead customize, configure refresh directly from SA Netview agent panel. this would not only help maintaining policy database datasets but ...
about 2 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Not under consideration

Message when RUNMODE is reached.

I would find it pretty useful if SA would give out a message when a RUNMODE level is succesfully reached. Means, that if I change the current RUNMODE and all the affected applications are in the correspondent state, a success Message would be very...
about 2 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Not under consideration

Dump analysis tool

With some of our most experienced dump readers either having retired already, or soon to retire. I was chatting to the boss about DWIZ since I'm always mentioning it when the team talks about dumps. He asked what it does, and when I told him, he a...
about 2 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Not under consideration

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