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    SDF Re-Sev/Re-Color of Existing Captured Message

    When using SDF as a monitoring platform, it would be beneficial to mark a captured message as "acknowledged" by changing the color of it on the screen without deleting it entirely, so that it can be followed up on or reports made later. At this ti...
    almost 2 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Not under consideration

    Suspend file and Configuration refresh aborted

    With SA 4.1 and the use of a suspend file, a configuration refresh may be aborted or rejected because errors related to the suspend file. The error messages may be issued in the syslog of a remote system and the issuer of the command is not inform...
    almost 8 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Planned for future release

    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

    CTG COBOL Batch interface like BAQCSTUB - CTGCSTUB.

    Rather than using Batch COBOL EXCI to single CICS region, have a COBOL Call interface like zCEE BAQCSTUB. This would allow for CPSM Workload distribution, across target Batch Processing regions. Topology of (Batch Owning Region),.. BOR --> AOR ...
    11 months ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 0 Future consideration

    Add user types for SHUTDOWN commands, similar to user type for STARTUP

    It is possible to alter/modify the start of an application by specifying a TYPE of STARTUP in the appropriate phase. An example of this using "WARM" as the type is shown in this KC figure: https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSWRCJ_4.1.0/c...
    almost 7 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration

    Enhancing CTG Idletimeout paramater definition for Transactions or Group of Transactions

    The Idletimeout parameter with dropworking specifies the period of time, in milliseconds, that a connection is allowed to remain idle. When the idle timeout has expired, the Client application is disconnected. Currently Idletimeout parameter can o...
    almost 3 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 0 Planned for future release

    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

    ingrchck needs to be updated to work with AUTWRK assignments

    INGRCHCK halts the current shutdown commands of the task it was invoked for. The issue we are encountering is that if the task it is waiting for is running on the same autwrk tasks then the second task might not be able to shutdown as the commands...
    over 1 year ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration

    System Shutdown Boost Enhancements

    When a system is being shutdown system automation checks if any recovery boosts are active.If any are active then the shutdown boost is not activated by system automation.This means that when you shutdown multiple systems one after the other in a ...
    about 4 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 4 Not under consideration

    INGTIMER do not produce BNH549I as there is no parm to specify NOTIFY for CHRON timers

    System automation has the command INGTIMER which is used to manage timers connected to an application under it's control. The INGTIMER uses the NETVIEW CHRON under the covers. A normal Netivew timer when executing will produce a DSI208I when it is...
    about 6 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 2 Future consideration

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